The "Little Bull", as Claude Nougaro was affectionately known, had two great loves in life: jazz and his hometown, Toulouse. A perfect cocktail! Nougaro’s rich, powerful voice (inherited from his father, a professional baritone) was as much at home with jazz as it was with java. This tireless pioneer of world music, one of the first French singers to experiment with Brazilian influences, died on 4 March 2004 at the age of 74.