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Youssou N'Dour: Immigrés [Virgin, 1988]
Cut in Paris in 1984 and now wisely remixed, this isn't as epochal as N'Dour thought it was when he wrote the title tune to his displaced Afro-Gallic brothers and sisters. Just a sample of what happens to soukous when West Africans mix in their own beats (and, especially in the horn lines, their Islamic melodies). And of how beautiful his voice is when he isn't trying too hard. B+