N'Dour, Youssou

Youssou N'Dour
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Name	N'Dour, Youssou Gender: M
Birthname	Youssou Madjiguène N'Dour
born on	1 October 1959 at 06:20 (= 06:20 AM )
Place	Dakar, Senegal, 14n40, 17w26
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
Data source	Orig source not known Rodden Rating C Collector: Bordoni
Astrology data	07°20' 20°43 Asc. 26°53'

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Youssou N'Dour (in Warsaw on 13 September 2009)
photo: Kotoviski photograph by Henryk Kotowski, license gfdl

Biography

Senegalese singer, percussionist, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman and a politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa. From April 2012 to October 2012, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism and Culture, and from October 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism and Leisure.

N'Dour helped to develop a style of popular Senegalese music known in the Serer language as mbalax, which derives from the conservative Serer music tradition of "Njuup". He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Goree directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love 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.

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Source Notes

Grazia Bordoni database, 'entertainment' file, source unknown.

Categories

• Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Percussionist)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.

• Vocation : Politics : Public office