Performing on the Millennium Stage, Panjabi MC brought the Kennedy Center’s Maximum India festival to a close last night in front of a crowd of about 1,500. With CD turntables for sampled bhangra beats and snippets of melodic vocal melodies (plus a Jay-Z verse from the “Beware of the Boys” remix), the British-raised Indian’s sound also included his [...]

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's documentary, Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love , focuses on the release of the Senegalese singer’s controversial 2004 album Egypt, and the performances he did in support of that CD.
Recorded before Sept. 11, 2001, Egypt features and the film depicts N’Dour praising the peaceful and positive values he gets from Sufi [...]