Youssou NDOUR
PROJECTS:
Throughout his decades long career, Youssou NDOUR’s roots in Senegalese traditional music and griot storytelling have remained the hallmark of his artistic personality. A daring innovator and staunch protector of the unique “Dakar overgroove,” NDOUR and his high-energy Super Étoile manage to fashion a sound which is both characteristically Senegalese and outward-looking, a contagiously exciting synthesis of musical languages. Rolling Stone calls NDOUR’s stunning tenor “a voice so extraordinary that the history of Africa seems locked inside it,” and Super Étoile has been lauded in The Village Voice as “the greatest band in the world.”
PRESS QUOTES:
NDOUR has created a musical context that’s as large with possibilities as his sinuous, spine tingling singing
Rolling Stone
The kind of world pop in which the blend of Western pop and African tradition sounds so organic that to talk about the different elements is to miss the whole
Washington Post
African rock’s great global star, he has found the most graceful and purposeful balance between the local and the international
The New York Times
Youssou NDOUR has been called ‘the African voice of the century” and “one of the world’s greatest singers.” That may suggest a whiff of hyperbole, but not in the case of NDOUR, who has been thrilling audiences with his contemporized versions of Senegalese mbalax music for nearly three decades
Los Angeles Times
The Senegalese global music icon’s scintillating, soaring, and serpentine vocals have epitomized Afropop to the ears of the world.
The Boston Globe
