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 ...

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 ...

Youssou N'Dour is as grand a figure as African music has yet produced. Twenty-five years ago, Folk Roots magazine named him "Artist of the Century," but this was hardly a valedictory. N'Dour has been ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Thirty years ago Youssou N’Dour was a young punk. But Mbalax, the style he pioneered, centred on the ...

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 ...