Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine described him as, “perhaps the most famous singer alive” in Senegal and much of Africa. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal’s Minister of Tourism.
N’Dour is Serer who was born to a Serer father and a Toucouleur mother. However, culturally, N’Dour is Wolof. He was born in Dakar. He started performing at age 12 and would later perform regularly with the Star Band, Dakar’s most popular group during the 1970s.
At the age of 15, Youssou N’Dour joined Super Diamono and, in 1975, toured with the band in West Africa. In 1976 when N’Dour was 16 years old, he signed a contract to sing with Ibra Kasse’s Star Band at Kasse’s Miami club in Dakar where he would become a sensation.
Youssou N’Dour children: Meet Ndeye Sokhna N’Dour, Birane N’Dour, St. Louis N’Dour, Venus N’Dour, Thioro N’Dour, Segui N’Dour,Ibrahima Nelson Mandela N’Dour, Mary Aida Coulibaly N’Dour
Youssou has 8 children and has been identified as Ndeye Sokhna N’Dour, Birane N’Dour, St. Louis N’Dour, Venus N’Dour, Thioro N’Dour, Segui N’Dour, Ibrahima Nelson Mandela N’Dour, and Mary Aida Coulibaly N’Dour. We, unfortunately, do not have much information about them.
Youssou N’Dour joined Super Diamono at the age of 15, and the two of them went on a West African tour together in 1975. N’Dour signed a contract in 1976, at the age of 16, to perform with Ibra Kasse’s Star Band at Kasse’s Miami club in Dakar, where he would go on to become famous.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
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