Youssou N’Dour and Etoile de Dakar: Senegal’s Afropop Legend

With a voice Rolling Stone characterized as “…so extraordinary that the history of Africa seems locked inside it,” Youssou NDOUR ’s music is an exciting synthesis of musical languages. A daring innovator whose work is rooted in Senegalese traditional music and griot storytelling, NDOUR has delighted fans, admirers and renowned collaborators worldwide throughout his thirty-year recording career. The Grammy Award-winning vocalist is known for a sound that is both uniquely Senegalese, as well as outward-looking and genre-defying.