Thursday, July 19, 2007

Youssou


Youssou N'Dour [1959] is a Senegalese [West Africa] singer and percussionist. He performes on a lot of western/european world/folk/jazz festivals.
Youssou developes popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional percussion and praise singing.

This is just great/hot/dancing music for ignorent westernens

- His website is here
- Sample track with lots of percussion is here [7MB.]
- His Best-Of album is here [75MB.]
- You can google/wiki/tube a lot more of Youssou

Enjoy

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