Dakar's super-talent hadn't yet succombed to the lure of international audiences. Although he'd begun to move away from the explosive party music of the lengthy grand bals with which he would ...

Not so long ago, pop progressed in straight lines. In the Seventies, when I first got seriously interested in music, there was barely a rock musician over 30, everything new could be gleaned from a ...

Live at the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut in a special late-night appearance. This largely acoustic performance spotlights Ndour’s ...

You could argue that 1987 was Youssou N’Dour’s peak as a performer; certainly this concert, an Athens warm-up for Peter Gabriel, finds him in superlative voice. “Immigrés”, from his breakthrough album ...