Boubacar Traoré
Boubacar Traoré ( ' Kar Kar ') ( b. 1942 in Mali) is an African musician.
Biography
Boubacar Traoré (also Kar Kar ), born 1942 in Kayes in northwestern Mali, starts to play guitar in the late fifties. He is influenced by Kassonké ( a local variety ), Afro-Cuban music with American blues. The guitar playing teaches him his older brother, who studied music in Cuba during the fifties.
1960/61, Boubacar Traoré Kayes leaves and works as a tailor in Bamako. He founded the " Pionniers Jazz".
He is famous in 1963 in West Africa with titles like " Mali Twist ", " Kar Kar Madison " and " Kayes Ba ". His nickname Kar Kar he gets as a footballer: ' Karikari "you say when a player dribbles too much. He takes for ' Radio Mali ' total of eight pieces on - sung in French and Maninka. The similarity between the popular in the early sixties in the Western world music and dance style Twist and Twist, the Kar Kar sings accompanied only by guitar and percussion, is rather idealistic, Traoré imitated him only with his " ta -ra -ra " Chorus. Boubacar Traoré ( Kar Kar ) is the Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry of Mali, he often occurs with a black leather jacket and is wearing " le blouson noir Kar Kar, " so called.
The " Mali Twist" is heard every morning on the radio and calls on the people to help shape the independent Mali since 1960.
Boubacar Traoré married in 1967 and moves back to Kaynes. Modibo Keïta in 1968, the government is overthrown. Traoré, who was the most important musicians during the years of upheaval Mali, ended his career. In later interviews, Traoré complained that he had never earned enough in the sixties just to keep a living from music. The next twenty years he worked in agriculture and as a freelance tailor. He only sings for friends.
In the late eighties Malian journalists come for a TV report by Kaynes - Boubacar Traoré they discover random and invite him to film footage to Bamako one. The held for deceased Traoré with cassette recordings of his career after a break of twenty years on.
1989 dies Traoré wife, he moved to France, works as a construction worker and sings at night before migrants.
1989 Traoré is found by British music producer who had heard his recordings from the late eighties, in France. Traoré starts from 1989 record CDs for the international market and to tour the world.
2001/2002 turns of the French film director Jacques Sarasin the documentary "The chanterai Pour Toi " Boubacar Traoré about life.