Youssou N'Dour et Le Super Etoile de Dakar - Fatteliku

October 1987. An open-air amphitheatre cut into a mountain overlooking the twinkling sprawl of nighttime Athens. Thousands of people are going crazy for a young Senegalese singer they’d never heard of until moments before when headline act Peter Gabriel walked onstage and introduced him. Here then is N’Dour’s opening set from that legendary Live in Athens show as performed by an act on the cusp of Western stardom. An act that had transformed Senegalese music by playing traditional rhythms on electric instruments fronted by a singer whose charisma multi-talents and social conscience would eventually see him acknowledged as one of the most celebrated African musicians in history.