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Youssou N'Dour

Senegal

Youssou N'Dour is credited on 971 releases across 230 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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971

Pressings credited

230

Albums

6

Decades active

524

In collections

Biography

Youssou "Madjiguène" N'Dour (also Ndour, French: [jusu (ɛ)nduʁ]; Wolof: Yuusu "Maajigéen" Nduur [juːsu ⁿd̺uːɾ]; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and politician. N'Dour helped develop a style of popular Senegambian music known as mbalax, a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism. Rolling Stone described him in 2004 as "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa, and ranked him in 2023 at number 69 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. N'Dour is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Gorée (2007) directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2008) directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. In 2006, N'Dour portrayed Olaudah Equiano in the film Amazing Grace.

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Credited work

971 releases · 230 albums · active 1978–2025

  • Performance · 2,035
  • Production · 182
  • Other credits · 98
  • Engineering · 8

Studios: Studio Xippi · Real World Studios · Studio 2000 (2) · ICP Recording Studios

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