Venue: Zellerbach Hall

Price: $20/$30/$40

Subscription Series: Winter/Spring Series

Dubbed the "West African Sinatra," Grammy-nominated Youssou N'Dour is African pop's greatest global star, "a singer with a voice so extraordinary that the history of Africa seems locked inside it," raves Rolling Stone magazine. In a career spanning more than 20 years, he has transformed the world-music landscape by mixing elements of Senegal's traditional mbalax percussion and soulful vocals with Afro-Cuban rhythms and strains of American jazz and funk. A musical diplomat, he writes urgent, engaging lyrics that transcend boundaries of language and culture, and his collaborations with Western artists such as Branford Marsalis, Sting, Wyclef Jean, and Peter Gabriel have attracted an increasingly diverse, cross-cultural audience to his explosive style. Together with his 10-member band Super Étoile, one of Africa's most popular live bands, the Senegalese superstar routinely has audiences on their feet, thinking globally and dancing locally to his irresistible percussive beat and soaring vocals.

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Related Performances:
Habib Koité & Bamada
Salif Keita

Artists links:
http://w3.to/youssou-ndour