Youssou N'Dour

About Youssou N'Dour

The most internationally recognised Senegalese musician and the figure who turned mbalax into a global music. After fronting Étoile de Dakar in the late 1970s, he founded Super Étoile in 1981 and built a four-decade run that took him from Dakar's Thiossane Club to a Grammy-winning album in 2005 and a stint as Senegal's Minister of Tourism. His 1994 duet with Neneh Cherry, '7 Seconds', remains the most-played African pop song in European chart history.