Hawa Dolo is one of my favourite songs - the world has lost one of its best musical voices.
Two-time Grammy recipient and African 'desert blues' pioneer ALI FARKA TOURE passed away Tuesday in his native homeland of Mali, due to complications from bone cancer. Toure, born in 1939 in the Sahara Desert's Timbuktu region, played a traditional Malian stringed instrument called the gurke, which he used to coin the desert blues genre. Although best known for his collaboration with RY COODER on 1994's Talking Timbuktu, which won him his first Grammy, Toure's last release, In the Heart of the Moon, won him the 2005 Grammy in the traditional world music category. He had just finished recording a new solo album.
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