Few vocalists anywhere in the world carry the influence and beauty of Senegal's
Youssou N'Dour, a free-thinking artist at the heart of Africa's emergence as a
commercial force throughout the rest of the world; and once described by Rolling
Stone magazine as "perhaps the most famous singer alive." Born in Dakar, he
began performing at the age of 12 and was soon playing percussion with the Star
Band - Dakar's most popular group of the early 1970s - before switching to
Orchestre Baobab. He then formed his own band Etoile de Dakar playing in an
irresistibly rhythmic Latin style, whic...