In the early 1980s, Senegalese singer Youssou N'dour performed at the Africa Centre in London as part of a club night called the Limpopo Club. It was the first time mbalax, the dance music popular in ...

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Youssou N’Dour’s voice is one of the wonders of music, a soaring bird that has taken him around the globe from his native Dakar, Senegal, as a beloved, ever-visionary arts ambassador for more than ...

It fuses the sabar and talking drum-driven rhythms of Senegal’s mbalax music with the German’s touch for techno and dub. Mbalax was born in Senegal in the early 1970s and is seen as a fusion of ...

In this edition of Encore!, the king of African pop Youssou Ndour speaks to us about his new album "Mbalax", in which he goes back to his roots. We also talk about the quest to award UNESCO World ...

Senegalese pop superstar and former Minister of Tourism of Senegal Youssou NDOUR will be in the US for a few shows this spring, including NYC’s Carnegie Hall on May 13. Tickets for that show are on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It opens with a tribute to Habib Faye, the bassist who was a mainstay of many of N’Dour’s bands and who died ...

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Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an even more spacious, psychedelic fusion of dub techno and mbalax drumming. No ...

Yusupha Mboob is another Gambian mbalax heart-throb struggling hard to gain international recognition. He is currently based in Austria where he is active in music more than ever before. Born and ...

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