What is Boubacar Traoré's tragic familiar story?

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While he was in the capital, Bamako, in 1987, Malian television invited him to perform. He sang a love song to his wife. Although the performance was a success, and he made a tape of his songs with a Senegalese producer, Traoré’s personal life was falling apart. Two of his children had died in the same week. His wife was not getting along with his family and took the children to live in the town of Bandiagara. She died there shortly after giving birth. Traoré was heartbroken; his pain was compounded when his family failed to offer condolences for Pierrette’s death. At that point, Traoré sold everything in his shop and a few months later moved to France. In Paris, he hoped to earn enough money to build a house for himself and his children, who had gone to live with their mother’s family. Traoré worked in France as a mason, living in a boarding house with other African immigrants and performing on the weekends.