African Rock’s Great Global Star, Youssou DNOUR at the Arsht!

Fri Oct 26, 2018
Prom 65a: Late Night prom performance by Youssou N'Dour & Le Super Étoile (Cali Kamga:guest vocals on 7 Seconds) at the Royal Albert Hall on Fri. 31 Aug. 2018.Photo by Mark Allan

Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and activist Youssou NDOUR makes his Arsht Center debut! Named one of the world’s 50 great voices by NPR, the Senegalese superstar’s vibrant vocals anchor powerful songs that have made him the world’s leading performer of mbalax, his country’s music that fuses classic African praise-singing, percussion, and guitar-based pop.

“African rock’s great global star, he has found the most graceful and purposeful balance between the local and the international!” – The New York Times

Throughout a thirty-year recording career, Youssou NDOUR’s roots in Senegalese traditional music and griot storytelling have remained the hallmark of his artistic personality. A daring innovator and staunch protector of the unique “Dakar overgroove”, NDOUR and his high-energy Super Étoile manage to fashion a sound which is both characteristically Senegalese and outward-looking, a contagiously exciting synthesis of musical languages. Rolling Stone called NDOUR’s stunning tenor “a voice so extraordinary that the history of Africa seems locked inside it,” and the Super Étoile has been lauded in The Village Voice as “the greatest band in the world.”

Get your tickets!

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33132
786.468.2000
www.arshtcenter.org

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