All recorded in the 1990s, the pieces on this compilation include several items not previously available, as well as memorable performances already released on Youssou N’Dour’s albums. His arrangement ...

Born in Dakar in 1959, N'Dour is a singer endowed with remarkable range and poise, and, as a composer, bandleader, and producer, with a prodigious musical intelligence. The New York Times has ...

Lagos — Youssou n'Dour has been called many things. "African artist of the Century" by Folk Roots. BBC calls him the best known African artist in the world. New York Times describes his voice as an ...

Youssou N’Dour’s voice is one of the wonders of music, a soaring bird that has taken him around the globe from his native Dakar, Senegal, as a beloved, ever-visionary arts ambassador for more than ...

Youssou N'Dour is without a doubt the biggest name at WOMAD 2023. His collaborations with major taste makers like Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Neneh Cherry and others mean many Kiwis alive in the 80s ...

December 27, 2010 • Ever since he burst onto the scene in Dakar, Senegal, in the early 1970s at age 12, Youssou N'Dour has been a sensation -- a musical chameleon capable of a seductive whisper or a ...