Dan Storper was 74 when he died last week in his adopted city of New Orleans. Arguably, no one in the US has done more to get Americans — as well as many around the globe who discovered Putumayo CD music compilations — listening to songs from around the globe other than Anglo-American pop. The World’s Marco Werman has a remembrance.
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