Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour (also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour; 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 and in 2023, the same publication ranked him at number 69 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. 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 music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies. He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Gorée (2007) directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2008) 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. Ethnically, N'Dour is Serer, born to a Serer father and a Toucouleur mother. However, culturally, N'Dour is Wolof. He was born in Dakar. He started performing at age 12 and would later perform regularly with the Star Band, Dakar's most popular group during the 1970s. Despite N'Dour's maternal connection to the traditional griot caste, he was not raised in that tradition, which he learned instead from his sibling. Although patrilineally from the noble N'Dour family, his parents' world-view encouraged a modern outlook, leaving him open to two cultures and thereby inspiring N'Dour's identity as a modern griot. As a Mouride disciple, taalibé in Wolof, a Muslim of the Mouride brotherhood, one of the large four Sufi orders in Senegambia, he often incorporated aspects of Islamic music and chants into his work. At the age of 15, Youssou N'Dour joined Super Diamono and, in 1975, toured with the band in West Africa. In 1976 when N'Dour was 16 years old, he signed a contract to sing with Ibra Kasse's Star Band at Kasse's Miami club in Dakar where he would become a sensation. In 1978, N'Dour would follow as several members of the Star Band left to form Étoile de Dakar, a band that made important contributions to Senegal's newly evolving musical style called mbalax which incorporated traditional Senegalese music into the Latin styles that had dominated Senegalese popular music. Although they quickly became one of the city's most popular bands, the group was short-lived due to internal problems. Étoile de Dakar split into two groups: Étoile 2000 and Super Étoile de Dakar. The latter group included N'Dour, guitarist Jimi Mbaye, bassist Habib Faye, and tama (talking drum) player Assane Thiam. Super Étoile de Dakar produced four albums on cassette in just a few months and eventually evolved into N'Dour's backing band. By 1991, he had opened his own recording studio, and, by 1995, his own record label, Jololi. ... Source: Article "Youssou N'Dour" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Popularitate : 2.044
  • Cunoscut pentru : Acting
  • Zi de nastere : 1959-10-01
  • Locul nasterii : Dakar, Senegal
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  • 2004
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    Cirque du Soleil: Midnight Sun

    Cirque du Soleil: Midnight Sun

    8 2004 HD

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  • 2005
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    Live 8

    Live 8

    7.2 2005 HD

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  • 2006
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    Bunăvoință uimitoare

    Bunăvoință uimitoare

    6.899 2006 HD

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  • 1988
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    Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires

    Bruce Springsteen - Human Rights Final - Buenos Aires

    8 1988 HD

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  • 1991
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    Contre l’oubli

    Contre l’oubli

    6.5 1991 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

    The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

    5 1987 HD

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  • 2008
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    Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

    Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love

    8 2008 HD

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  • 1988
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    Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary

    Human Rights Now 25th Anniversary

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1992
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    Picc Mi

    Picc Mi

    5.2 1992 HD

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  • 2018
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    Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

    Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

    6 2018 HD

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  • 1976
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    Mosaïque

    Mosaïque

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  • 1991
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    Peter Gabriel - POV

    Peter Gabriel - POV

    1 1991 HD

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  • 2013
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    Peter Gabriel - Live In Athens 1987

    Peter Gabriel - Live In Athens 1987

    7.9 2013 HD

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  • 2008
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    5.2 2008 HD

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  • 2007
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    Retour à Gorée

    Retour à Gorée

    9 2007 HD

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  • 1970
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    Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

    Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

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  • 1975
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    Xala

    Xala

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  • 1998
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    The Paris Concert for Amnesty International

    The Paris Concert for Amnesty International

    1 1998 HD

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  • 2019
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    Africa se ridică

    Africa se ridică

    7.5 2019 HD

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  • 1988
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    Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

    Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

    6 1988 HD

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  • 2024
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    Taratata fête les 40 ans de Bercy

    Taratata fête les 40 ans de Bercy

    8 2024 HD

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  • 1991
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    Boxumaleen!! - L'an... Fer

    Boxumaleen!! - L'an... Fer

    5 1991 HD

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  • 1998
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    Kirikou et la sorcière

    Kirikou et la sorcière

    7.3 1998 HD

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  • 2012
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    A República di Mininus

    A República di Mininus

    8.2 2012 HD

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  • 1985
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    Victoires de la musique

    Victoires de la musique

    2 1985 HD

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  • 2016
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    Wanderlust

    Wanderlust

    1 2016 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 2001
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    Star Academy

    Star Academy

    6.4 2001 HD

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1993
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    Taratata

    Taratata

    7.5 1993 HD

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