Paps Touray showed interest in playing music first at Foyer French School Music Hall where cousin Maestro Salsa King of Africa and the heart and soul of Africando and inventor of Salsa- Mballax , the Gambian singer Laba Sosseh introduced him to the rehearsing band members of Portuguese-Africa origin, natives of the Cape Verde Island who migrated to Banjul. The Foyer Hall was in the heart of Wolof and Portuguese Town Ward of Banjul South. The musicians then used non-electric instruments like bongos, box guitars, contra bass, clarinet, violins and vocal groups and solo singers.