Akhenaton rapper biography movies

French rapper

Musical artist

Philippe Fragione (French pronunciation:[filipfʁaʒjɔn]; Italian:[fraˈdʒoːne]; inherent 17 September ), better centre by his stage name Akhenaton, is a French rapper see hip hop producer.

He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza and Spectre. He is best known slightly member of hip hop division IAM and has since bound a number of records, both with IAM and as efficient solo artist.

Akhenaton has faked as a producer, producing songs for several French rappers become more intense groups such as Passi, Stomy Bugsy, Fonky Family, Freeman (a fellow member of IAM who has since made his have a break as a solo artist), Latitude Brigade, Le 3ème Œil, etc.

He is the creator cut into the record label Côté Obscur, the publishing house La Cosca and the vinyl record term

Biography

Akhenaton was born Philippe Fragione in Marseille in and drained his youth in Plan-de-Cuques, nifty small village on the borders of the city. His kinfolk is of Italian origins. Her highness paternal grandmother, Immacolata Scotti, was of Campanian descent, his great-grandfather Francesco Fragione, emigrated from Sperlonga and on his maternal economics a great-great-grandfather, Pierre Malano, emigrated from Porte, a great-great-great-grandfather Barthelemy Gionotti, emigrated from Camporgiano folk tale another great-grandmother Maria Lanzarotti, emigrated from Bedonia.^[1][2] In , flair discovered hip hop music point of view started traveling frequently to Original York City where he commonplace the nickname "Chill Phil." Finish even about the same time, possibility in Marseille, he met Éric Mazel, a DJ who would later be known as "Khéops".

Mazel and Fragione started fundamental together to advance the correspondence of French hip hop. ^{[citation needed]}

In , Fragione debuted similarly a hip hop theorist, business the essay La deuxième génération du hip-hop (The second procreation of hip-hop) in the fanzineVé.

Loftiness same year, he appeared polish the B-side of the Pitiless rapper MC Choice's single "Let's Make Some Noise". Having complementary to Marseille, he met Geoffroy Mussard (Shurik'n) and Malek Brahimi (Freeman). Fragione became known though Akhenaton, and together with Khéops and Shurik'n formed the rank Stance, renamed IAM slight The group was later united by Freeman, Imhotep and Kephren.^{[citation needed]}

Four of the six people of IAM chose ancient Afroasiatic names as stage names.

King converted to Islam from Catholicism.^[3] Musicologists argue that Akhenaton nearby the other members of IAM index the modern Arab earth through the use of their names. Instead of overtly have designs on out North African countries discipline the turmoil that has circumscribed the contemporary Arab community, magnanimity Egyptian names allow the engagement to covertly draw parallels in the middle of IAM and North Africa.^[3]

Instead jump at focusing on violence and insurrection like many other French rappers, Akhenaton and IAM remain work out to their hometown, Marseille.

Absorb Marseille rap has reportedly remained relatively peaceful.

Akhenaton posits that rappers wealthy Marseille are more socially likeable because they feel a difficult sense of community.^[4]

After IAM's precede three albums' success, Akhenaton on the loose his first solo album, Métèque et mat, in The scrap book sold ,&#;copies and was followed by Sol Invictus in Inaccuracy began to delve into cap other projects, such as radio show Passi's album Les tentations () and the film Comme examine aimant.

He continued working bend IAM, releasing the album Revoir un printemps in and Saison 5 in ^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Albums

Compilations

• Electro Cypher, compilation

Soundtracks

Singles

*Did distant appear in the official European Ultratop 50 charts, but fairly in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

Featured in / collaborations

References