One day, I was a kid,
I was with my father,
A radio was playing, someone was singing...
I liked it a lot, it was a love song,
but I didn’t even know what love was.
Afterwards I asked my father :
who's singing that ?
A man from Kayes, he replied.
His name is KarKar.
Why KarKar, I asked?
Because he knew how to play football,
and KarKar means "break".
His dribbling could break through
all the players, he could really dribble,
so it started like that : KarKar, KarKar,
everyone called him KarKar.
Then one day,
a friend who said me :
Come on, I have a Bambara tape,
it’s really good Bambara blues.
I went over his house
and he put on KarKar’s cassette :
The“ resource ” musicians of Mali,
these are old musicians,
they could talk to us about the music
from 1960, maybe even before that,
they know Malian music,
they know where Malian music came from, where it’s going, they know.
When you talk to each other,
don’t forget to invoke the name of God.

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