Terrible news! The singer Ismaël Touré of the Groupe mythique du Touré Kunda has retired!According to Seneweb’s source, he died on Monday, February 27 in France and will be buried there.
Daby Touré, a shoemaker from Mali, settled in Ziguinchor in Casamance and founded a large family. The brothers Touré, Amadou, Ismaïla, Sixu, Ousmane and Hamidou are the descendants of this patriarch.
Considered pioneers of African music in France at the end of the 70s, the Touré Kunda brothers are simply one of the key and essential groups of this new multicultural France that today radiates well at theBeyond music: The legendary band Touré Kunda was back, for its 40 years of career, with a new album «Lambi Golo».
Ze-Africanews offers his sincere condolences to the world of music, to his family! TOURÉ KUNDA.
