Musical awakening to cultures of the world

An artist, musician, and singer from the Mauritania-Senegal-Mali region, Daby Touré grew up surrounded by the musical diversity of West Africa. Influenced from childhood by the Mandinka traditions of Mali, the rhythms of Senegalese mbalax, and the Diola music of Casamance, he also became familiar with the sounds of the Mauritanian Sahel (Arabic-Berber, Hassaniya, and Tuareg). Drawing on these deep roots and his experience on stage, he now offers a lively oral tradition, where traditional and modern styles come together. His methodology is based on sensitive listening and practice: it is not just a question of learning an instrument (guitar, percussion), but of appropriating the melodies and rhythms that have shaped his career, in order to relive them through oneself.