Youssou N'Dour (born in 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, and musician whose fusion of traditional mbalax percussion music with bluesy Arab-style vocals, accompanied by African and electronic instruments, became popular in the West in the 1980s on albums such as Immigres 1984 with the band Le Super Etoile de Dakar.
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Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter and composer.