Daby Touré is a critically-acclaimed African singer-songwriter. He lives in France now, a long way from his native Mauritania*.

Toure's story is the story of the African diaspora, of a peripatetic childhood that exposed him to a cosmopolitan mix of languages, cultures and music.

Source NPR Here & Now

*=Other web sources cite modern day Mali as his birthplace having migrated to Mauritania as a young child.