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Youssou N'Dour
Senegalese politician and musician (born 1959)
Youssou N'Dour (French:[jusu(ɛ)nduʁ], Wolof: Yuusu Nduur[juːsuⁿd̺uːɾ]; also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour;[2] born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa[3] and in 2023, the same publication ranked him at number 69 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[4] From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism.
N'Dour helped develop a style of popular Senegalese music known by all Senegambians (including the Wolof) as mbalax, a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer[5][6] music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies.[5][6] He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Gorée (200
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Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour (IPA: [jusun̩ˈduːʀ]) (born October 1, 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive."[1] He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban arrangements and flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and have flourished in West Africa ever since.
Beginning in the mid-1970s the resulting mix was modernized with a gloss of more complex indigenous Senegalese dance rhythms, roomy and melodic guitar and saxophone solos, chattering talking-drum soliloquies and, on occasion, Sufi-inspired Muslim religious chant. This created a new music which was at turns nostalgic, restrained and stately, or celebratory, explosively syncopated and indescribably funky. Younger Sen
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Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour ( nyɛla bɛ ni lahi mi so ni Youssou Madjiguène Ndour;[1] bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli October dahinyini dali, yuuni 1959) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ Senegale yiliyiina , yil'sabira, yil'bahira, kpɛrikpɛrita, daa bia n-ti pahi siyaasa nira. Yuuni 2004 ni, Rolling Stone daa nyɛla ŋun buɣisi o ka yɛli, " mansani ŋuni n na kuli nyɛ yiliyiini biingi ŋun be o nyɛvuli ni '" Senegal tingbanni ni gbansabila tingbana ni pam [2] and in
Early life
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Music career
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Activism
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Political career
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Awards and nominations
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Discography
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Early cassettes
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Vol 1 Tabaski
- Vol 2 Ndakarou
- Vol 3 Independence
- Vol 4 Banjoly N'Diaye
- Vol 5 Yarou
- Vol 6 Marguedy
- Vol 7 Daby
- Vol 8 Immi