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Sidi Touré

Chanteur/euse
Mali

Français

« Sidi Touré est le digne héritier d’Ali Farka Touré. Il est le meilleur des musiciens songhaï. Instrumentiste et chanteur, il a un talent et une simplicité incroyables. Nous avons besoin de personne comme Sidi. »
Bassékou Kouyaté

Sidi Touré est né en 1959 à Gao au Mali.
Issu d’une famille noble où il n’est pas d’usage de chanter, Sidi Touré affronte les traditions pour pouvoir vivre sa passion : il devient rapidement le plus jeune membre de l’orchestre régional de Gao, les étoiles songhaï.
Depuis, il compose, et sa musique est marquée par les rythmes traditionnels de transe du takamba alors que ses textes traitent de problèmes contemporains.
Son album Sahel Folk est sorti le 25 janvier 2011.

English

« Sidi Touré is a worthy successor to Ali Farka Touré. Among Songhaï musicians, Sidi is the best. Sidi Toure has all the talent, quality , simplicity, playing and singing skills, it’s incredible. We need people like Sidi. » – Bassekou Kouyaté
Sidi Touré was born in 1959 in the ancient town of Gao, Mali. He made his first guitar as a child, constructing it from his wooden writing slate. Growing up, Sidi Touré faced a conflict between the inexorable pull of music and the expectations of family and society, plus the significance and onus of a past that came with being born into a noble family. The Touré family had been sung about, and sung to, by traditional griots for centuries, but until Sidi Touré challenged the rules as a small boy, the Touré?s did not sing. Despite his family?s disapproval, Sidi became the lead singer of his school?s band, and then became the youngest member of Gao?s regional orchestra, the Songhaï Stars, who played bi-annual festivals like the Bamako Biennale and toured both regionally and nationally. After winning the award for best singer twice, he took the band to the northern regions of Mali and to Niger, and toured much of the western Sahel region. Throughout his time making music, Sidi?s sound has both captured and challenged his roots. His music moves from the translucent swaying takamba to the trance inducing Holley, while the lyrics often address many non-traditional issues. Sidi has a critical mind and his songs have a purpose.

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