N'Dour is one of very few Third World musicians to become a star in the U.S. and Europe. That's all the more remarkable because he usually does not sing in English. That's the case for this concert.
In June 1994, just before this concert, he had the biggest hit of his career, "7 Seconds," a trilingual duet with Neneh Cherry. It was the Number One single in France for a record breaking 16 weeks. Surprisingly though, he didn't play that song at this concert. However, it's very possible that he didn't and I don't have his full set. (If this is the full set, it's a rather short one.) But if he didn't, it could be because he didn't have Cherry to sing it with.
N'Dour has collaborated with Peter Gabriel on multiple occasions, including on the songs "In Your Eyes" and "Shaking the Tree." During Gabriel's set on Day Three of this festival, N'Dour participated on those two songs.
Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:
This album is 26 minutes long.
01 New Africa (Youssou N'Dour)
02 Undecided [Japoulo] (Youssou N'Dour)
03 Maybe Tonight (Youssou N'Dour)
04 Generations [Diamono] (Youssou N'Dour)
https://www.upload.ee/files/16750994/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_04YossurNDur_atse.zip.html
For the cover photos for this festival, I was able to find ones from this exact concert in nearly every case. But the sole exception to that is N'Dour, I think. I tried using a screenshot from a YouTube video of this concert, but I found the resolution too poor. So instead I went with this concert photo from this general time period.
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