Editing Youssou N'Dour (section)

==Early life==
[[File:YoussouNDour08TIFF.jpg|thumb|left|N'Dour at the 2008 [[Toronto International Film Festival]]]]

Ethnically,<ref>In the [[Senegambia region]] as well as many [[African culture]]s, a person's ethnicity is determined by their father's line or surname. ''[[N'Dour]]'' and its variation ''Ndure'' or ''Ndour'' is a typical Serer surname. See - [[Godfrey Mwakikagile|Mwakikagile, Godfrey]], ''The Gambia and Its People: Ethnic Identities and Cultural Integration in Africa,'' New Africa Press (2010), p. 136, 141. {{ISBN|9789987160235}}</ref> N'Dour is [[Serer people|Serer]], born to a Serer father and a [[Toucouleur people|Toucouleur]] mother.<ref name="Sturman"/><ref name="mus me port"/> However, culturally, N'Dour is [[Wolof people|Wolof]].<ref name="mus me port">{{cite news |title=La musique me portait, c'était ma seule langue |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2005/08/12/youssou-n-dour-la-musique-me-portait-c-etait-ma-seule-langue_679658_3246.html |language=fr |date=12 August 2005|newspaper=Le Monde.fr }}</ref> He was born in [[Dakar]].<ref name="Sturman"/> He started performing at age 12 and would later perform regularly with the [[Star Band]], Dakar's most popular group during the 1970s.

Despite N'Dour's maternal connection to the traditional [[griot]] caste, he was not raised in that tradition, which he learned instead from his sibling. Although patrilineally from the noble N'Dour family, his parents' world-view encouraged a modern outlook, leaving him open to two cultures and thereby inspiring N'Dour's identity as a modern griot. As a Mouride disciple'', taalibé'' in Wolof, a [[Muslim]] of the [[Mouride]] brotherhood, one of the large four [[Sufism|Sufi]] orders in [[Senegambia]], he often incorporated aspects of [[Islamic music]] and chants into his work.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-06-16 |title=Youssou N'Dour film explores music and Islam |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ndour-idUSTRE55F6XW20090616 |access-date=2022-07-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A song and a prayer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/may/23/worldmusic.islam |first=Mark|last= Hudson|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 May 2004}}</ref>