To do this week: music from the Vahdat Sisters and Youssou N’Dour, comedy from George Wallace, a concert film screening, and ...

A rat-a-tat percussion and keyboard riff, and Youssou N’Dour’s voice tore through the dark Dakar sky, as the world music ...

Youssou N’Dour talks about his new album Eclairer Le Monde – Light The World, using African instruments, and his 45 years as a singer.

Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges onstage; the kinetic ...

Since his international breakthrough in 1984, N’Dour, the son of a Senegalese griot has been at the forefront of global music with his brand of Mbalax—combining traditional rhythms of his ...

Hailed as the "king of Mbalax", his own urban musical melting pot of Senegalese rhythms and Latin styles, N'Dour brought his pioneering world music to international acclaim from the 1980s onwards.

Hailed as the "king of Mbalax", his own urban musical melting pot of Senegalese rhythms and Latin styles, N'Dour brought his pioneering world music to international acclaim from the 1980s onwards. His ...