David Tayorault
David Edson Tayorault aka Totorino (the Samurai), is an Ivorian musician, singer and actor born in 1971.
It all began in 1984 at Divo in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, with his friends Marcelin Yacé, Marin, Manou Gallo, César Anot, Billy Syncop, Tiane, and Francois Konian at the initiative of the mayor of Divo The creator of the group Les Woya, Ivorian group of the 1980s. The young David 16 years is lead vocal within the group It is known by the fans of the time like the child of the colonial helmet surely for its stage.
By the success of the Woya, the experience and the training acquired within the group, David Tayorault began a solo career after the dissolution of the Woya in 1988. He will release 8 albums.
David Tayorault combines the vocal and the instrumentation as happily possible, each of his albums that carries you into this universe so unique that only he can create is a mixture of various colorful sonority. An explosion of rhythms and melodies. A clever mix of African, Caribbean, Western and South American music.
Music influenced by African traditional songs and sounds, jazz, blues, gospel, zouk, soul, etc …
Totorino the samurai is also a producer, composer and arranger. It is the source of the success of numerous artists from Ivory Coast, Africa and the world:
At the level of the artists Zouglou, several groups: Les Poussins Chocs that are found in Yodé and Siro, About You Roots, Les Youlés, Magic System, Les Mercredires, Atito Kpata, Yabongo, which is the last one.
The great Doug-Saga, Dj Djeff, Dj Boulevard, Chanaka Yakuza, Tata Keny, Dj Konty, Dj Lewis with “Avian Flu”
At the level of the elders: he worked with Chantal Taïba, Gadji Celi; Aklane … David has revisited the repertoire of the nightingale of Ivorian music Bailly Spinto.
On the international level: on him the arrangements of First System of Gaou of the group Magic. He has signed two hits for the collective of rappers Bisso Na Bisso. He also made the title It is in the joy of the Franco-Malian rapper Mokobé.
Responding by the Senegalese world star Youssou N’Dour, David rearranges the great successes of the child of the Medina fatteluku. Recently, there is Zouglou Makers, Josey.