Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Starring: Youssou N’Dour, Peter Gabriel, Moustapha Mbaye
Senegal/Egypt/France/USA, 2008, 1 hour 42 mins, Arabic, Wolof, French with English subtitles
Toranto Film Festival, Middle East Film Festival, Sao Paulo Film Festival and more.
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This refreshingly optimistic film shows Youssou N’Dour, a super star of world music, changing the world through his music. A mix of interviews and concert footage of N’Dour, the griot with the gorgeous voice, on his world tour to promote Egypt, his ground-breaking album that united Arab and African musical traditions in praise of Islam. Acclaimed as timely in the West, the album was labelled blasphemous back home in Senegal. N’Dour stresses the compassionate, tolerant side of Islam and challenges those who argue it is taboo for him to sing sacred music. His beautiful music, love for Islam, and his infectious belief in the potential for young Africans to solve the problems they face, makes this a revealing spiritual journey.
Gadewch i ni dreulio amser gydag un o sêr cerddoriaeth fyd eang, Youssou N’Dour o’r Aifft. Cymysgedd o gyfweliadau a darnau o gyngherddau ar daith. Mae’n gerddor arbennig sy’n clodfori ochr dyner a goddefgar Islam ac sy’n uno pobl drwy ei gerddoriaeth.
Jeffrey Lyons NBC/Reel Talk
“..a voice so extraordinary that the history of Africa seems locked up inside it.” Rolling Stone
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| Aberystwyth Arts Centre | 2010-03-17 | 14:30:00 |
| Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold | 2010-03-30 | 20:00:00 |
| Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff | 2010-03-11 | 18:15:00 |
