Ousmane Touré

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

SN

Active from

1955-11-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,527

Total plays

7,254

Ousmane Touré’s international career was born of a tragedy. His elder brother Amadou collapsed onstage in 1983 and died at the age of 40. It orphaned the Senegalese duo Touré Kunda but 28-year-old Ousmane stepped up and, thanks to his accomplished singing and refined compositions, the legendary band continued to dazzle audiences worldwide. Their three albums sold 400,000 copies in France alone. After the group split up in 1990 Ousmane settled in the US where he co-wrote “Africa Bamba” <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Natural Product Synthesis Using Multicomponent Reaction Strategies

   · 2009 · cited 1,642x

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

   · 2016 · cited 1,384x

3. Molecular Evolution of Zika Virus during Its Emergence in the 20th Century

   · 2014 · cited 635x

4. Prevalence and factors associated with hidradenitis suppurativa: Results from two case-control studies

   · 2008 · cited 524x

5. A Worldwide Map of<i>Plasmodium falciparum</i>K13-Propeller Polymorphisms

   · 2016 · cited 497x

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Sports profile

Sport

Soccer

Team

Lille

Position

Defender

Nationality

France

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