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Who is Youssou N’Dour?
Youssou N’Dour is one of the most respected Senegalese Musicians in the world. Rolling stone magazine described the musician as “perhaps the most famous singer alive” in Senegal and Africa.
What Is Youssou N’Dour Net Worth?
| Estimated Net Worth In 2019 | $150 Million |
| Source Of Income | Singer, percussionist |
| Age | Born 1 October 1959, 60 Years In 2019 |
| Music Genre | Mbalax |
When was Youssou N’Dour born?
The Senegalese singer and songwriter was born on 1st October 1959 in Dakar to a Toucouleur mother and a Serer father.
Youssou N’dour Music Career
He does much more than writing songs and singing, he is also a politician, a renown entrepreneur, occasional actor, and composer. Youssou N’Dour became Senegal’s Minister of Tourism in April 2012 to September 2013.
He is known for his contribution in developing Senegalese type of popular music called mbalax, type of music genre that integrates well into traditional polyrhythm which is a derivative of Wolof sabar with popular urban dance music that originated from Africa.
He was used as a subject of an award-winning film Return to Gorée (2007) which he directed alongside Pierre-Yves Borgeaud. Also in 2008, I Bring What I Love (2008) was released to the world, a movie directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
Don’t be surprised to see N’Dour who is a musician featuring in more movies and actively contributing to screen projects than ever, he was also featured in 2006 in a movie titled Amazing Grace.
He started performing music since age 12 well before he reached teenage, little wonders he is so successful as a musician. He regularly hangs out with the Star Band which happened to be the most popular music group in Dakar in 1970.
N’Dour in 1979 came up with his own ensemble the Étoile de Dakar and this mark the beginning of his professional music career, He cannot be forgotten for his Latin style works in the early days of forming the group. He decided to spice up his music formation by developing a unique sound together with his music group in 1980, this he did by featuring other musicians and instrumentalists like Jimi Mbaye on guitar, bassist Habib Faye, and tama (talking drum) player Assane Thiam.
He took things yet a little bit further in 1991 by opening a recording studio, after 4 years he started his own record label he called, Jololi.
Youssou N’dour Facts
N’Dour is arguably the most celebrated African musicians
His style of mixing traditional Senegalese mbalax with eclectic influences that cut across Cuban rumba to hip hop, jazz, and soul earned him a lot of fans internationally.
N’Dour collaborations:
Peter Gabriel
Axelle Red
Sting
Alan Stivell
Bran Van 3000
Neneh Cherry
Wyclef Jean
Paul Simon
Bruce Springsteen
Tracy Chapman
James Newton Howard
Branford Marsalis
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Dido
Lou Reed
Bruce Cockburn, and many others from the west.
N’Dour composed an Africa Opera in July 1993 for the French Festival Paris quartier d’été and was premiered at the Opéra Garnier
His Voice was described by the New York Times as an “arresting tenor, a supple weapon deployed with prophetic authority”.
N’Dour’s work blends well into the entire Senegalese music spectrum.
We charged you to go and listen to the official anthem of the FIFA 1998 World Cup with Axelle Red “La Cour des Grands”
.In 1994, He released his all-time biggest hit that cut across the African Boundary; it is a trilingual titled “7 Seconds”, a duet sung with Neneh Cherry.
Youssou N’dour Achievements and Awards
In 2005, He bagged his first American Grammy Award as the best contemporary world music album with his CD Egypt.
N’dour was described by Folk Roots magazine as the ”African Artist of the Century”. He has toured around the globe within the 30 years of his musical career.
N’Dour in 2006 mastermind the role played by the African-British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano in the movie Amazing Grace, which depicts William Wilberforce efforts to put end to slavery in the British Empire.
N’dour is the proprietor of L’Observateur, one of the widely-circulated newspapers in his home country Senegal, under his management belt is the radio station RFM (Radio Future Medias) and TV channel TFM.
N’Dour received the Prince Claus Award in 2002 themed “Languages and transcultural forms of expression”
He bagged an honorary doctoral degree in Music in 2011 from Yale University, USA.
N’Dour in 2008 offered one of his compositions, Bébé, Cynthia Brown: a French Musician.
He won a share of Sweden’s $150,000 Polar music prize.
Who is Youssou N’dour Wife?
The high profiled musician has more than one Wife, his ex-wife’s name is Mami Camara and his current wife’s name is Aida Coulibaly/Aida Champagne.
Aida Coulibaly
Aida Coulibaly was Born in 1977 at the maternity ward of the Dakar Main Hospital. She is Senegalese-French half-breed, current president of the Youssou Ndour Foundation, is a woman of the world. Married to N’Dour in 2006 as the second wedding of the artist, before the divorce with his first wife Mami Camara is pronounced
How many Children does N’Dour Have?
Ibrahima Nelson Mandela (Son)
Thioro N’Dour (Daughter)
Ndeye Sokhna N’Ddour (Daughter)
Segui N’Dour (Son)
Venus N’Dour (Son)
Birane N’Dour (Son)
Mary Aida Coulibaly (Daughter)
St. Louis N’Dour (Son)
His Ex has 4 children with N’dour while his present wife has 4 children as well, to make 8 children. His present wife is president of the Youssou N’Dour Foundation (Youth Network for Development) Aid Coulibaly is the president of the Youssou N’Dour Foundation (Youth Network for Development).
Thioro is the eldest daughter of the world star, Youssou Ndour. She lives in Paris with her husband, Remi Ballet with whom she married in 2005.
Despite the many rumors of their separation, Thioro and Ballet are still united. She is described by her relatives as “a discreet, hardworking woman who takes good care of her man”. Thioro works in fashion as a stylist and will create her own models with one of her maternal aunts.
Birane Ndour whose mother is Cathy Cissé is one of the Sons of Youssou Ndour and he is the CEO of Groupe Futurs Médias, Birane lost his mother in 2018 after a brief sickness.
Who are the Parents of Youssou N’dour?
- Father’s Name: Elimane N’Dour
- Mother’s Name: Ndeye Sokhna Mboup (a griotte of Wolof Heritage)
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