Vieux Farka Touré

Continuing the legacy of his late father, singer and fingerstyle guitarist Vieux Farka Touré (born in Bamako, Mali in 1981) started off playing drums and the calabash at Mali’s Institut National des Arts before moving over to the guitar in 2001. After convincing his father, the late Grammy-winning Malian multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré, to give him his blessing to pursue music, he released his debut self-titled album in 2007. Vieux Farke Touré, which was produced by Modiba and released by World Village, featured a guest appearance from his late father, who died on 6 March 2006 from bone cancer and made the recordings not long before his death. Kora legend Toumani Diabaté also featured. A remix album, UFOs Over Bamako, followed in 2008, and his second album Fondo in 2009, which went to number five on Billboard's World Albums chart. In June 2010, he performed at the Opening Celebration of the 2010 FIFA World Cup alongside the likes of Shakira, Alicia Keys, and K'naan, and released his first live album, LIVE, that year. He continued to issue new albums regularly, from 2011's The Secret to 2017's Samba, also taking in a collaborative album with Julia Easterlin in 2015, Touristes, along the way. He returned in 2022 with new album Les Racines and that year covered some of his father's songs for a collaborative record with Houston-based group Khruangbin called Ali, released on Dead Oceans.

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