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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Ali Farka Toure

Ali Farka Toure, the Malian blues musician, best known to international audienes for his 1994 collaboration with American guitarist Ry Cooder on "Talking Timbuktu", died earlier today in his sleep from bone cancer. He was 60 years old. The International Herald Tribune published an interesting piece on him. Click here .
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