Movie is music is moving
Just saw the world premiere of a great film about Youssou N’dour, mostly about his Egypt album and tour and the controversy about that in his own country, Senegal. The young director, American Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, made an excellent documentary about the famous African singer, revealing the feelings and dilemma’s about spirituality and Islam. The Egypt album was a great succes in the Western world, but quite controversy in Senegal, but that changed after he won the Grammy Award in 2004.
Special moments were D’nour with his fragile, 95 years old grandmother – died in 2006, the movie is dedicated to her – , a serious, but also hilaric moment in Dublin about the starting time of a concert during Ramadan – it was scheduled too early and has to be prosponed to later on the evening – and the nail-biting waiting for the verdict of the Grammy jury at Youssou’s home in Senegal.
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Mame Bamba, N’dour song about Sheik Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Mouride brotherhood and the Senegal pilgrim town Touba.
