“He doesn’t write”: Youssou Ndour draws inspiration from a single word to create his songs

Cultural producer Mohamed Sow recalls that in a Brussels studio in 1989, Youssou Ndour asked American music producer Thomas Rome for a song containing the words “No more.” In an interview with Seneweb, Sow said the singer does not write his songs but creates them from one or two words or a significant event. The account comes ahead of the Grand Bal de Bercy 2026, scheduled for October 17 at Paris’s Accor Arena.