Oxmo Puccino

Abdoulaye Plea Diarra born 3 August 1974 better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino is a FrenchMalian rapper A longtime hip hop fan at age 21 Diarra began his collaboration with the fledgling rap collective Time Bomb honing his craft alongside future superstars like Booba and Diams He quickly developed into a lyricist with a metaphorical ingenuity far more advanced than his contemporaries crafting violent yet strangely poetic portraits of urban Paris life and drawing on the streetsmart American hiphop of the Notorious BIG and other icons to document life in Paris hardscrabble 19th district In 1996 Oxmo Puccino made his recorded debut with Pucc Fiction a contribution to the compilation L432 A series of subsequent mixtape appearances solidified his growing reputation within the French rap underground and in 1998 he issued his solo debut Opéra Puccino Its 2001 followup LAmour Est Mort proved Puccinos creative and commercial breakthrough while 2004s Le Cactus de Sibérie confirmed his star status After signing to the venerable jazz label Blue Note Puccino assembled a new backing group the Jazzbastards to record 2006s Lipopette Bar In 2007 rapper Styles P used the instrumental of Black Desperado in his own album Super Gangster Extraordinary Gentleman in the song Holiday The track was produced by DJ Green Lantern In 2011 he was in a Nike ad promotion reciting a passage from Cyrano de Bergerac He has appeared in 2011 music video for 1990 by Orelsan as a tribute to the 1990s He was invited to sing the track in Orelsans live tour as a guest in the Paris Olympia gig in 2012 He is featured as the spoken word artist on Ibrahim Maaloufs track Douce from the 2011 studio album Diagnostic Puccino was born in 1974 in Ségou Mali He came to Paris one year later and lived in the 19th arrondissement from the age of 5 Oxmo Puccino is the older brother of the French international basketball player Mamoutou Diarra Source Article Oxmo Puccino from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30