# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/youssou-n-dour
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:39:21.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/youssou-n-dour"
name: "Youssou N’Dour"
slug: "youssou-n-dour"
description: "Youssou \"Madjiguène\" N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and politician. N'Dour helped develop a style of popular Senegambian music known as mbalax, a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism."
tagline: "Senegalese singer, composer and politician (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YoussouNdour20090913.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           24.48742
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 249
totalFollowers: 13100
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump