In 2024, he's finally coming to the Africa Days Vienna: Youssou N'Dour, super talent, the world's best pop singer from Senegal. We feel honoured! Youssou N'Dour's music reflects the people of African villages just as much as the youth of Berlin or New York. >>Line-up Africa Days Vienna 2024
Youssou N'Dour has one of those voices that, once you've heard it, you never forget. Anyone who hadn't already got to know him through the international hit "Shaking The Tree", recorded with Peter Gabriel in 1989, did so in 1994 at the latest when he recorded the incredibly beguiling catchy tune "7 Seconds" as a duet with Neneh Cherry, the daughter of free jazz pioneer Don Cherry and sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry. Since then, many music connoisseurs have been convinced that if there is one voice that represents the entire African continent, it is that of Youssou N'Dour. The Senegalese stands like no other for peaceful dialogue between different countries, races, ethnicities, genders and religions. As an advocate of pan-Africanism, his motto is: "What we have in common is much more important than what divides us." ...more
