Super Étoile de Dakar
Senegalese music group
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role of N’Dour
- In Youssou N’Dour
…left the group to form Étoile de Dakar. Although it shared some stylistic features with its parent band, Étoile de Dakar proudly promoted a more strongly Africanized version of the emergent mbalax music. Most of the group’s songs were sung in Wolof, using an ornamented vocal style—sometimes sustained and soaring,…
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