Akhenaton

Philippe Fragione was born on September 17 1968 in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille Coming from a family of Italian immigrants from Naples young Philippe and his brother Fabien live in the suburbs of Marseille with their mother an EDF employee After a stay with his fathers family living in New York in 1982 Philippe discovered rap From that day on his outlook on life changed completely He will abandon his studies in the first year of DEUG in biology His first recording appearance is on the title This Is The B Side B side of the vinyl Lets Make Some Noise by Choice MCs recorded in Brooklyn in 1988 making it the first FrancoAmerican rap featuring Back in Marseille his meetings with Shurikn Kheops and Imothep led to the creation of the group IAM and in 1989 they released the selfproduced cassette Concept In 1991 the first studio album of the group De La Planète Mars was released the success was such that many would affirm that the IAM group was 5 years ahead of the competition Akhenaton converted to Islam in 1993 shortly before his marriage to Aïcha thus becoming Abdel Hakim In 1993 IAMs second studio album Ombre Est Lumière was released With the success of the title Je danse le Mia 1993 the group expanded its audience beyond French rap Akhenaton released his first solo album in October 1995 Métèque Et Mat a personal work where he confirmed his status as the best French rapper which sold 300000 copies Akhenaton invests himself in production sets up a label Côté Obscur and a publishing house La Cosca He wrote with Kheops the soundtrack in 1998 for the film Taxi produced by Luc Besson In February 99 they received the Victoire de la Musique for best original soundtrack At the end of the 90s he cosigned with Kamel Saleh the featurelength fiction film Comme Un Aimant Akhenaton composes the soundtrack with Bruno Coulais In 2001 Akhenaton returned solo with Sol Invictus which sold more than 175000 copies In November 2002 he released a Black Album made up of pieces composed during the recording of the previous album but not retained and of titles intended for soundtracks In 2003 IAM released Revoir Un Printemps At the end of 2005 Akhenaton released Double Chill Burger a compilation of his solo tracks with 8 unreleased tracks In 2006 he released the solo Soldats De Fortune IAMs album Season 5 was released in 2007 The group celebrated their 20 years of existence with a concert at the foot of the pyramids of Giza Egypt in March 2008 In 2011 Akhenaton and Faf Larage released the album We Luv New York Akhenaton published his fifth solo opus Je Suis En Vie in the fall of 2014 which received the Victory for urban music album of the year 2015 Also in 2015 Akhenaton provided artistic direction at the Institut du Monde Arabe from the exhibition Hip hop From the Bronx to the Arab Streets With IAM they released the albums Rêvolution in 2017 and Yasuké in 2019 accompanied by concerts In 2020 he composed Asteroid an album of seventeen tracks which he put online on YouTube on June 8 2020 In October 2020 Akhenaton and Shurikn appear on the album 13Organisé initiated by Jul with the title I am Marseille