Youssou N'Dour

Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour was already a widely celebrated innovator in his home country by the time global audiences first heard his soaring multi-octave voice on Peter Gabriel's 1986 hit "In Your Eyes." With his longtime band Super Étoile de Dakar, N'Dour was a key figure in the multicultural mbalax musical style of the late '70s and early '80s, and thanks in part to pop stars like Gabriel and Paul Simon, he gained an international following in the late '80s that further blossomed with releases like 1994's The Guide (Wommat) -- which yielded his biggest hit, the Neneh ...