{"id":162,"date":"2014-09-08T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/peter-gabriel-youssou-n-dour-biko\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:56:17","slug":"peter-gabriel-youssou-n-dour-biko","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/peter-gabriel-youssou-n-dour-biko\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gabriel &#038; Youssou N&#8217;Dour Biko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peter Gabriel   Youssou N&#039;Dour   Biko Live)   YouTube\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdDEwVD7dHE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was then that Peter Gabriel, the former Genesis singer turned producer and promoter, flew to Paris to hear N&#8217;Dour perform to a Senegalese audience. &#8220;I was blown away,&#8221; he told the Observer. &#8220;The words that came to mind were liquid gold. A fluid and expressive voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> N&#8217;Dour appeared on Gabriel&#8217;s platinum-selling So album in 1986 and joined him on a subsequent world tour. &#8220;He&#8217;s probably the top African artist in many ways. His music has reached a lot of people outside his culture. He&#8217;s also become something of a statesman with all the campaigns he&#8217;s taken on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Gabriel, who is godfather to one of N&#8217;Dour&#8217;s sons (the singer reciprocated with Gabriel&#8217;s son), said N&#8217;Dour is probably the best-known person in Senegal. &#8220;When I was there, whenever I was stopped by police or asked for a bribe, I identified myself as a friend of Youssou and the problem generally disappeared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=featured&#038;Itemid=101\">Go Back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was then that Peter Gabriel, the former Genesis singer turned producer and promoter, flew to Paris to hear N&#8217;Dour perform to a Senegalese audience. &#8220;I was blown away,&#8221; he told the Observer. &#8220;The words that came to mind were liquid gold. A fluid and expressive voice.&#8221; N&#8217;Dour appeared on Gabriel&#8217;s platinum-selling So album in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.ikon2023.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}