'wether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. in its advanced positions, it is the great refusal- the protest against that which is. the modes in which man and things are made to appear, to sing and sound and speak, are modes of refuting, breaking and recreating their factual existence. but these modes of negation pay tribute to the antagonistic society to which they are linked. separated from the sphere of labor where society reproduces itself and its misery, the world of art which they create remains, with all its truth, a privilege and an illusion.'
herbert marcuse

En lucha siempre por la Paz para seguir amando, creciendo, viajando...

Born in Dakar in 1959, N’Dour is a singer endowed with remarkable range and poise, and, as a composer, bandleader and producer, with a prodigious musical intelligence. The New York Times has described his voice as “an arresting tenor, deployed with prophetic authority,” and as a voice that “soars heavenward with passion and then wafts tenderly toward earth.” 

As a craftsman of an inimitable brand of ensemble music, N’Dour absorbs the entire diversity of the Senegalese musical spectrum in his work, often filtering his country’s musical heritage through a modernist lens of genre-defying rock or pop music from outside Senegalese culture. 

Named “African Artist of the Century” by the English publication fRoots at the threshold of the year 2000, and to the “TIME 100” in 2007 (Time magazine’s annual list of “the hundred men and women whose power, talent, or moral example is transforming the world”), N’Dour has made mbalax famous throughout the world during nearly thirty years of recording and touring outside of Senegal with his band, The Super Etoile. 

A shy boy once bullied by his music teachers, now sharing his music with the world. 
From fear to music.

Ben Blackett is an electronic music artist influenced by Enigma, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, U2, Deep Forest and Enya. Similar in sound to Ryan Farish, Nigel Stanford, Ulrich Schnauss, Suduaya. Visit my website for more info.

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