"Carai caso", "Caarai tuya caso", "Noom(a)ra", "Noom(a)ra ltaa", "Sup toptobelite", "Toro caa", "Toro caa moroti", "Tuya caso", "
Yakare caa".
Bassekou said his mother,
Yakare Damba, a prominent singer with a voice that penetrated the village nights, taught him the art of singing that now accompanies every stroke of the strings on his n'goni.