Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile

Étoile de Dakar rose from the vibrant late-70s nightclub scene of Senegal’s capital city, via seminal local outfit the Star Band. It was youthful frontman Youssou N’Dour who transformed them into Le Super Étoile; by the early 80s, this act’s pioneering sound – percussion-heavy mbalax with Latin influences and socially conscious Wolof-language lyrics – was going global. Decades on, N’Dour is a prolific world-class superstar, spanning vast cultural and political realms.