Djatou Touré

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Djatou Touré has a voice full of soul and of beautiful clear pride dramatic.
Her repertoire are traditional songs from Ivory Coast, improvisations and own compositions in Bambara with Malinke background, in French and English - in different formations and a capella solo with percussion. In her shows she renders original self composed pop songs, African Highlife and raggae as well as cover versions of popular Miriam Makeba tunes and other international songs.
Djatou Touré visited the biggest art highschool in Ivory Coast: Syndicat National des Artistes Musiciens and Ecole Nationale des Arts - ENA. She was a student of Professor Atta Kouassi (Chef of National Television Orquestra Ivory Coast) and worked for the television magazine Première Chance, Podium and Vacances Culture.
She had concerts with: Aly Keita / Ivory Coast - one of the best African xylophonists (Balaphonist) in the world, of course with her father the well-known master drummer Souleymane Touré / Ivory Coast, Koumba Sidibé / Mali, Tiken Jah Fakoly / Ivory Coast, George Makintosh / Liberia, Les Woudy, Blebo & Go, Djatou Touré & Novo Group Quartett, Djatou Touré & Le Privilège.
Since 1997 she lives in Europe/ Berlin where she works together with AHOI Artists and Event Management. Since 2006 she has her own band - 'Le Privilège' (Djatou Touré, voc., comp., percussion, dance/ Ivory Coast; Giuseppe Coppola, drums/ Italy; Jeff Chappah, bass/ Zambia, Cremildo de Caifaz, guitar/ Mozambique; Frank Schellenberger, keyboard/ Germany; Katarina Hebben, backvoc. / Germany-Ethiopia).
With her song 'La Fièvre du Carnaval' she is one of the winners of the Music Awards 2007 of the famous Karneval der Kulturen Berlin. The Awards will be presented in Berlin on Sunday 27th May 2007 at Afrika-Bühne - Karneval der Kulturen. The song is releasing on the Karneval der Kulturen 2007 compilation (piranha records) and is played on radio stations like radio Multikulti and Radio EINS.