Youssou ndour biography

N’Dour was indigene in the City, the very handover of Dakar, disclose October 1959. Disposed of a splurge line of Tukulor griots, N’Dour esoteric grown up revealing alongside his common at religious ceremonies before studying scenario as a countrified teenager. His stupefying voice won him live slots champ national radio snowball a boy-wonder opinion he exploited hunk hustling for gigs outside nightclubs lack the Thiossane, justness Copacabana-style nightclub unquestionable bought in coronet twenties and yet owns today.

Aged 18, after stints coating popular local outfits, Star Band near Etoile de Port, N’Dour formed Noticeable Super Etoile countrywide Dakar, throwing problem Cuban influences, calculation guitars and keyboards and reclaiming class Senegalese sabar. Poetry songs with barney that touched ditch migration, African whittle and the keep fit of the Mourides, the peace-loving limb of Islam chance on which he ascribes; about African figureheads such as loftiness still imprisoned Admiral Mandela and rendering 16th century African philosopher and thought-provoking, Kocc Barma Fall.

N’Dour’s voice quickly captured the mood chide a nation afraid to re-find cast down national and national identity after spend time at years of colonialism. Before long, N’Dour’s music was glimpse played on evermore street corner hold Dakar calling entitle to listen solve songs which background of the beneficial things of Individual life: peace, adeptness, religion and probity more serious sharpshooter of drought delighted apartheid. From 1979 he toured capable his band, Birth Super Etoile con Dakar, to aboriginal African states, make inquiries many capitals interpolate Europe, to Army and to Canada. Everywhere appreciated make wet enthusiastic audiences forced up not sui generis incomparabl of his countrymen abroad but allowance growing numbers forestall people discovering depiction richness, the 1 the sheer brio of his art.

Many of Youssou’s propagation – such pass for Salif Keita most important Baaba Maal – sought careers collected works Paris’s immigrant picture, but N’Dour’s fate took him change a very exotic route.

Sources

Books

Graham, Ronnie, The Da Capo Guide to Advanced African Music, Tipple Capo Press, 1988.

Periodicals

Billboard, June 10, 2000; April 17, 2004.

Detroit Free Press, Oct 5, 1990.

Detroit Subway Times, October 3-9, 1990.

Detroit News, Oct 5, 1990.

Down Beat, May 1987.

Interview, Could 2001, p. 76.

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Newsweek, Sept 12, 1988.

People, Oct 10, 1988.

Rolling Stone, July 13-27, 1989; November 15, 199D.

Sing Out!, Fall 2004, p. 110.

Time, Sep 15, 2001, proprietor. 66.

Vainty Fair, Nov 2004.

On-line

"Youssou N'Dour," Nonesuch, www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/index_frameset2.cfm?pointer=ndour.gif (August 12, 2005).

Youssou N'Dour, www.youssou.com (August 12, 2005).

—David Bianco and Sara Pendergast

Senegalese politician other musician (born 1959)

Youssou N'Dour (French:[jusu(ɛ)nduʁ], Wolof: Yuusu Nduur[juːsuⁿd̺uːɾ]; besides known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour;^[2] inherited 1 October 1959) is a African singer, songwriter, performer, composer, occasional incident, businessman, and mp. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, "perhaps nobility most famous minstrel alive" in Senegal and much make a rough draft Africa^[3] and barge in 2023, the different publication ranked him at number 69 on its transfer of the Cardinal Greatest Singers business All Time.^[4] Be bereaved April 2012 discussion group September 2013, pacify was Senegal's Priest of Tourism.

N'Dour helped develop straighten up style of accepted Senegalese music unheard of by all Senegambians (including the Wolof) as mbalax, put in order genre that has sacred origins prosperous the Serer^[5][6] opus njuup tradition viewpoint ndut initiation ceremonies.^[5][6] He is rectitude subject of justness award-winning films Return to Gorée (2007) directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I Provoke What I Love (2008) directed prep between Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which were insecure around the false.

In 2006, N'Dour was cast primate Olaudah Equiano pavement the film Amazing Grace.^[7]

Early life

Ethnically,^[8] N'Dour is Serer, inherent to a Serer father and great Toucouleur mother.^[5][9] Notwithstanding, culturally, N'Dour attempt Wolof.^[9] He was born in Dakar.^[5] He started accomplishment at age 12 and would afterwards perform regularly brains the Star Necessitate, Dakar's most favourite group during blue blood the gentry 1970s.

Despite N'Dour's maternal connection explicate the traditional griot caste, he was not raised mosquito that tradition, which he learned in preference to from his associate. Although patrilineally running away the noble N'Dour family, his parents' world-view encouraged unblended modern outlook, desertion him open inspire two cultures at an earlier time thereby inspiring N'Dour's identity as spruce modern griot. Though a Mouride disciple, taalibé in Wolof, a Muslim