Youssou N'dour (World Music Singer) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, composer, actor, businessman and politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine described him as "perhaps the world's most popular singer" in Senegal and much of Africa. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Minister of Tourism of Senegal. N'Dour helped develop a popular Senegalese musical style called mbalax by all Senegambians, a genre with divine origins in the Sererian musical tradition of njuup and human initiation rituals. He is the subject of the award-winning films Retour à Gorée by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I bring what I love directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which is premiered worldwide. In 2006, N'Dour was cast as Olaudah Equiano in the movie Amazing Grace.

World Music Singer Youssou N'dour was born in Senegal on October 1, 1959. He's 64 years old today.

He pioneered the mbalax form of music and was nominated Senegal's Minister of Tourism and Culture in 2012. He was once labeled Senegal's most renowned living vocalist by Rolling Stone magazine.

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Youssou N'dour was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1959 is also the year of Pig (豬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He joined the Star Band at a young age and went on to create the Étoile de Dakar ensemble in 1979, which went on to become a hugely successful act across Africa.

Return to Goree, directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, are two films about him.

He was born to a Serer father and a Wolof mother.

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Amazing Grace, a critically acclaimed film about ^Politician William Wilberforce's campaign against slavery in the British Empire, featured him in 2006.

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Latest information about Youssou N'dour updated on March 17 2023.