African musical giant dies in Mali
Two-time Grammy Award-winning African musical giant Ali Farka Toure of Mali died today after a long illness, Mali’s Culture Ministry announced. He was in his late 60s.
Toure, one of Africa’s most-famous performers, played a traditional Malian stringed instrument called the gurkel, and was best-known overseas for his 1995 collaboration with American guitarist Ry Cooder on Talking Timbuktu, which netted him his first Grammy.
