High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Youssou N`Dour (French pronunciation: ; born 1 October 1959 ) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music that trace most of its technique from the conservative Serer music tradition of "Njuup" (the progenitor of Mbalax). He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Goree directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N`Dour: I Bring What I Love directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which were released theatrically around the world.