Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Senegalese drummers, Senegalese guitarists, Senegalese singers, Youssou N'Dour, Didier Awadi, Habib Faye, Baaba Maal, Lord Alajiman, Mbaye Dieye Faye, Dembo Konte and Kausu Kuyateh, Alioune Mbaye Nder, Seckou Keita, Laye Sow, Ismael Lo, Ismaila Sane, Issa, Viviane Ndour, Doudou N'Diaye Rose, Baay Sooley, Wasis Diop, Mor Thiam, Abdoulaye Diakite, Latyr Sy, Julia Sarr, Mansour Seck, Omar Pene, Laba Sosseh, Thione Seck, Mamadou Konte, Cheikh Lo, Nuru Kane, Issa Cissokho, Coumba Gawlo, Mamadou Diop, Aiyb Dieng, Ablaye Cissoko, Mola Sylla, Titi, Ablaye Cissokko, Jimi Mbaye. Excerpt: 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. 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. Mbalax is a blend of the country's old traditional griot percussion and praise-singing rooted in Serer Saloumand adopted by Wolof which is sometimes blended with Afro-Cuban, Zouk, and Haitian kompa arrangements and flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and have flourished in West Africa ever since. Beginning in the mid-1970s the resulting mix was modernized with a gloss of more complex indigenous Senegalese dance rhythms, roomy and melodic guitar and saxophone solos, chattering talking-drum soliloquies and, on occasion, Sufi-inspired Muslim religious chant. This created a new music which was at turns nostalgic, restrained and stately, or...