Boubacar Traoré

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

ML

Active from

1942

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

107,730

Total plays

987,158

Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali) is a renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Traoré, nicknamed "Kar Kar" ("the one who dribbles too much" in Bambara, a reference to his soccer playing), first came to prominence in the early 1960s. He had taught himself to play guitar and developed a unique style that blended blues, Arab music, and kassonké, a style native to the Kayes region. He was a superstar in Mali and a symbol of the newly independent country. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

   · 2022 · cited 1,400x

2. Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance

   · 2016 · cited 1,385x

3. Lasing action from photonic bound states in continuum

   · 2017 · cited 1,355x

4. Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea

   · 2014 · cited 1,083x

5. Scaling law for excitons in 2D perovskite quantum wells

   · 2018 · cited 769x

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Sports profile

Sport

Soccer

Team

Metz

Position

Defensive Midfield

Nationality

Mali

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Traoré

Gender

male

Citizenship

Mali

Place of birth

San

Occupation

association football player

Languages spoken

French

Sport

association football

Height

190

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