Youssou N’Dour, a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, infrequent actor, businessperson, and politician, was born on October 1, 1959. It’s also common to spell his name as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour. Youssou was a Dakar native.
He began playing when he was 12 years old, and over the years he frequently played with the Star Band, the most well-known group in Dakar in the 1970s.
He was described as “perhaps the most famous singer alive” in Senegal and much of Africa by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. He served as the country’s minister of tourism from April 2012 to September 2013.
Youssou N’Dour joined Super Diamono at the age of 15, and the two of them went on a 1975 West African tour. N’Dour signed a contract at the age of 16 to play with Ibra Kasse’s Star Band at Kasse’s Miami club in Dakar, where he later rose to fame.
N’Dour was appointed the FAO Goodwill Ambassador for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on October 16, 2000.
N’Dour’s presidential campaign was featured in the Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders television program on PBS. After his portfolio was altered, he was then named Minister of Tourism and Leisure. On September 2, 2013, a new government headed by Prime Minister Aminata Touré was established, and he was fired.
Where did Youssou N’Dour go to college and high school?
The general public is unaware of Youssou N’Dour’s high school and college associations because he has never mentioned them.
