Dicko FilsBurkina Faso |1975| ---Born in 1975 in a village near the capital Ouagadougou,[1][2] Moulaye Dicko, the sixth of 14 children, began studying French in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, where his father settled to develop his livestock business.[1]
Aged 11, Dicko was sent to Mali in 1986 to follow Koranic studies. It is where he discovered and was fascinated by the voices of Salif Kéita, Oumou Sangaré and Ali Farka Touré, among others.[1]