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A big river, the Senegal, marks the southern boundary of this modern nation state.
Although the lighter skinned Moors have always held political and social power in the country, more than half the population belong to black ethnic groups; Toucouleur, Fulbe, Soninke and Wolof. He learned all about farming and cattle rearing.
While his father and uncles formed the pioneering Afropop band Toure Kunda, Touré has always followed his own musical path, with influences ranging from African folk melodies and desert blues, to jazz, pop, reggae, funk and soul. My father was more fearful for me than anything else, because he knew what a musician's life consisted of and for him it wasn't a future.'
In 1989, political unrest and inter-ethnic conflict was making life in Mauritania very difficult, so when Hamidou received an invitation from his younger brothers Sixu and Ismael to join their group Touré Kunda, although at first he hesitated, the offer seemed too good to refuse.
Touré was in pursuit of a very individual musical vision, and he needed the time, space and solitude to make it a reality.
After several years hard work, Touré teamed up with electronic musician and digital wizard Cyrille Dufay to develop the sound further.
A few years later, he moved back to Nouakchott to live with his father who had divorced from Daby's mother. That was important.
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Daby Touré’s story goes back two generations and has a fairy tale beginning. The result of all this experimentation, exploration and hard graft is 'Diam'.
The songs on the album tell of Touré's life, of the people around him and of the world in general.
They gave birth to a son who they called Daby, in honour of his grandfather, the patriarch of the family.
Daby Touré grew up in Boutilimit, Nouakchott, and Casmance before going to live with an uncle in the village of Djeole, near Kaedi, on the banks of the Senegal river in Mauritania. His parents had divorced, and Touré's father couldn't be seen to be raising young children on his own.
It was a secure village childhood.
“With hindsight, I think the times I spent in the village were the most important in my life, because that’s where I was forged,” Daby remembers. Unlike his brothers who grew up in the Casamance region in Southern Senegal, Hamidou was brought up by an uncle in Mauritania.
I get up in the morning, I pick up my guitar and I start working. Despite the fact that 'Ladde' was very well received in France and Touré Touré played hundreds of concerts all over the country, as well as further afield in Canada and Brazil, Touré felt dissatisfied with the band's progress. He illuminates the darkest of concert halls with his joyful performances and infectious love of music.
Later, Touré moved back to the capital Nouakchott to live with his father.
The Sixun connection opened up the doors to the bubbling Parisian jazz scene, with its open-mindedness and vitality, and Daby fell in love with bands like Weather Report, Joe Zawinul and Pat Metheny. Born into the Touré Kunda musical heritage, he co-founded Touré Touré in Senegal before moving to Paris, France, and becoming a solo artist. The album was well received by the critics.