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Ali Farka Touré
Timbuktu, Mali • 1939-10-31 – 2006-03-07
Ali Farka Touré is credited on 226 releases across 50 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1976–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
226
Pressings credited
50
Albums
6
Decades active
33
In collections
Biography
Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music blends traditional Malian music and its derivative, African American blues and is considered a pioneer of African desert blues. Touré was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and number 37 on Spin magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Some years after his death, a group of musicians playing in his style performed as the Ali Farka Touré Allstars (2012), and later the Ali Farka Touré Band (formed 2014).
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
226 releases · 50 albums · active 1976–2025
- Performance · 1,204
- Other credits · 183
- Production · 27
- Engineering · 6
Studios: Ocean Way Recording · Livingston Studios · Cold Storage · Hotel Mandé
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Vieux Farka Touré
- Ali Toure Farka
- Boubacar Traoré
- "Ali Toure ""Farka"""
- Tony Coe
- Afel Bocoum
- Talvin Singh
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