Viuex farka toure biography
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Viuex farka toure biography
Vieux Farka Touré
Malian musical artist (born 1981)
Musical artist
Boureima "Vieux" Farka Touré (born 12 March 1981) is a Malian singer, composer and guitarist.
He is the son of Malian musician Ali Farka Touré.[1]
Biography
Touré was born in Niafunké, Mali, in 1981 to Ali Farka Touré. Despite his father's discouragement and his family's lineage as a tribe of soldiers, Touré secretly took up the guitar and enrolled in the Institut National des Arts in Bamako, Mali.[2]
In 2005, Eric Herman of Modiba expressed interest in producing an album for Touré; to do so, he had to acquire permission from Ali Touré, Toumani Diabaté, and other community elders.[3] This led to his self-titled debut album, produced by Modiba and released by World Village on 12 February 2007.[4] The album featured Toumani Diabaté as well as his late father, who died in 2006.
Following the release of a remix album, UFOs Over Bamako, in 2008,[5] and