Music stole the life of Daby Touré, the Paris-based, Mauritanian-born virtual one-man band who has supported Peter Gabriel and been a hit mainstage act at Womad.

Now he’s back to wow Greenbelt (after first playing Centaur in 2005) and he invites us to join him in pursuit of the Holy Grail of new Afro-centric pop.

‘If the idea of an African Nick Drake or Cat Stevens appeals, then Daby Touré is your man,’ says The Times. But Daby shuns any obligation to be more 'African' than his heart and soul tell him to be. Collaborating with electronic musician and digital wizard Cyrille Dufay, Daby’s first Real World album Diam earned him a nomination for Best Newcomer at the BBC Awards for World Music back in 2006. And Stereo Spirit, his second is release, is now out on Real World Records. He sums up his freewheeling approach to creativity like this: 'I get up in the morning, I pick up my guitar and I start working. I don't know where I'm going to go.’ But we know that Greenbelters will want to go with him.

In a word: troubadour