Youssou N'Dour is All Set
Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1990
YOUSSOU N'DOUR has supplanted King Sunny Ade as the most visible African artist to Western pop audiences since the current surge of international interest in African music began a decade ago.
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