Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour (French pronunciation: [jusu nˈduʁ]; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman and a politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa. From April 2012 to October 2012, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism and Culture, and from October 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism and Leisure.

N'Dour helped to develop a style of popular Senegalese music known in the Serer language as mbalax, which derives from the conservative Serer music tradition of "Njuup". He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Goree directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which were released around the world.

In 2006, N'Dour was cast as Olaudah Equiano in the film Amazing Grace.

Life

N'Dour was born in Dakar to a Wolof mother and a Serer father. At age 12, he began to perform and within a few years was performing regularly with the Star Band, Dakar's most popular group during the early 1970s. Several members of the Star Band joined Orchestra Baobab about that time.

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IDFA 2008 | Report | Interview with Youssou Ndour

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— The 2017 Millennium Park Summer Music Series kicks off Monday offering free outdoor concerts throughout the summer ... The series begins Monday, June 12 featuring Otis Taylor, and Ben Sollee & Kentucky Native. The summer music series will continue every Monday and Thursday, June 12 – August 21 at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park ... All performances will begin at 6.30 p.m ... Tomeka Reid (Jazz) ... Youssou N’Dour (Dakar Overgroove)....

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Author. ARAB NEWS Fri, 2017-05-19 03.00 ID. 1495142997879829500 JEDDAH ... 19 ... In the past, the festival has played host to Youssou N’Dour, Dalida, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Alpha Blondy, Joe Cocker, Serge Lama and Gérard Lenorman ... Main category. Offbeat ....

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Ryuichi Sakamoto spoke in a whisper at a bistro steps from his New York home. Silver hair framed his tortoiseshell glasses, and the sleeves of his black shirt were pulled over his hands ... It turned out to be oropharyngeal cancer ...  Photo ... Fairfax Media ... At the height of Sakamoto's pop career, he enlisted the likes of Robbie Robertson of the Band, the Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour and the Beach Boy Brian Wilson on a single album....

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NEW YORK--“I thought I was completely healthy.”. Ryuichi Sakamoto spoke in a whisper at a bistro steps from his West Village home. Silver hair framed his tortoise shell glasses, and the sleeves of his black shirt were pulled over his hands ... At the height of Sakamoto’s pop career, he enlisted the likes of Robbie Robertson of the Band, the Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour and the Beach Boy Brian Wilson on a single album ... I thought ... ....

Lady Macbeth: how one film took on costume drama's whites-only rule

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It’s set in Victorian Britain – and has more black characters than all the Austens and Downtons put together. Will Lady Macbeth end period drama’s whitewashing of history?. Period and historical. Lady Macbeth ... Katherine’s maid, Anna, is black ... Facebook ... Amazing Grace, in 2006, centred on abolitionist William Wilberforce (played by Ioan Gruffud) but found only one speaking part for a black character (Youssou N’Dour as Olaudah Equiano) ... ....

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African music is at the core of practically every melody and rhythm from the Americas ... Though, more simply, its irresistible groove poetry speaks for itself ... Related ... Why did they quit? Audience tastes change, and their elegant polyglot sound was overshadowed by the more agitated, indigenous style of mbalax, which Baobab nodded to but which younger acts (most famously Youssou N'Dour and Etoile De Dakar) fully owned ... 1 ... visa ... It ain't easy....

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Lionel Richie Wolf Trap, June 27, $45-$150. It’s been years since Lionel Richie’s last new record, 2012’s countrified duets disc “Tuskegee,” but when you have a run of hits like the former Commodores singer does, you don’t exactly need new music. Get tickets. April 22 at 10 a.m. through wolftrap.org. Youssou N’Dour Lisner Auditorium, Aug. [] ... ....

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The undisputed king of Senegal’s music scene, Youssou N’Dour, has called him a friend since they met in Paris in the early 1990s. “When I saw him, I knew that he could put Africa on display, he could show off African artists,” N’Dour said. Born in Cahors in southwestern France in 1956 and raised in the city of Nice, the former music journalist first picked up a camera in his late teens to provide photos to go with his early writing....

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Youri Lenquette/Courtesy of the artist hide caption. toggle caption ... It was edged out by mbalax, the high-flying, drum-heavy and fast-paced style made popular by other artists, most notably singer Youssou N'Dour (a Star Band alumnus himself) — and Orchestra Baobab disbanded in 1987 ... The reissue, plus some coaxing from both Gold and Youssou N'Dour, fueled a reuniting of the band, whose membership has evolved greatly over the years ... ....

Musician Youssou Ndour backs Senegal's war on malaria

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Dakar (AFP) - Youssou Ndour, Senegal's most famous musician, is throwing his weight behind malaria eradication in his homeland to combat an illness that has for too long held back Africa's economic development. Malaria killed more than 400,000 peo ... ....

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In its 25th year, the world music festival took estimated crowds of 90,000 on a journey of discovery across four days ... (Who were Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan or Youssou N’Dour, and how were their names pronounced?) A quarter of a century later, the festival’s 60 or so acts are a mere Google search away – explaining why this year’s festival could still pull an impressive crowd (90,000 over four days), despite its lack of superstar drawcards ... ....

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Dakar, Senegal- Senegalese music star Youssou N'Dour led the tributes Tuesday to young blind singer Ablaye Mbaye who collapsed and died in a recording studio in Dakar. The 35-year-old singer -- who had toured the world with N'Dour's Super Etoile de Dakar band -- suddenly fell ill Monday while recording his new album "General Interest", friends told AFP ... ....

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