Name: Niafunké
Address: Niafunké, Maghreb

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Ali Farka Touré

Malian singer and guitarist, born in 1939 in the village of Kanau in the Timbuktu region and died at Bamako in 2006. He fused traditional Malian music with the blues — he was called 'the African John Lee Hooker' — recorded with Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabaté, won three Grammy Awards, one of them posthumously, and became mayor of his home town of Niafunké in 2004.

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