Q+A: Youssou N’Dour on I Bring What I Love
- story THE FADER
For four years, Senegalese singer, Youssou N’Dour let cameras follow him. The resulting documentary, Chai Vasarhelyi’s I Bring What I Love is an intimate portrait of the international superstar, one of the most compelling and important figure in the huge slice of culture we call world music. In town for a performance at Brooklyn’s BAM to coincide with a screening, N’Dour sat down with FADER contributor Simon Greenberg at a recording studio where they spoke about the importance of African music’s evolution, of making the film and what makes N’Dour such a fiery performer. I Bring What I Love is playing in cities through the summer, check their site for screening information.
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posted on Jul 15, 2009 in ART+CULTURE, ART+CULTURE INTERVIEWS tags Africa, I Bring What I Love, Q+A, Youssou N'Dour
