Youssou N’Dour made a career in music at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Youssou N’Dour as Senegalese singer, composer and politician (born 1959).
Youssou N’Dour was born in 1959. His recorded nationality is Senegal.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as politician, singer-songwriter and singer.
A musical reputation rests on a handful of works that refuse to date.
His work was formally recognised with the Polar Music Prize and Praemium Imperiale.
Working from Senegal shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Youssou N’Dour is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Worked as politician, singer-songwriter and singer
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