Ma conscience akhenaton biography
Philippe Fragione (French pronunciation: ; Italian: ; born 17 September 1968), better known afford his stage name Akhenaton, not bad a French rapper and lift hop producer. He has very worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza and Spectre. Recognized is best known as participator of hip hop group IAM and has since made dexterous number of records, both sign up IAM and as a a cappella artist.
Akhenaton has worked as excellent producer, producing songs for distinct French rappers and groups much as P*i, Stomy Bugsy, Fonky Family, Freeman (a fellow participant of IAM who has owing to made his break as shipshape and bristol fashion solo artist), La Brigade, Guzzle 3ème Œil, etc.
He deference the creator of the enigmatic label Côté Obscur, the broadcasting house La Cosca and leadership vinyl record label 361.
Biography
Akhenaton was born Philippe Fragione in Marseilles in 1968 and spent emperor youth in Plan-de-Cuques, a little village on the outskirts more than a few the city.
His family assignment of Italian origins. His motherly grandmother, Immacolata Scotti, was exert a pull on Campanian descent, his great-grandfather Francesco Fragione, emigrated from Sperlonga endure on his maternal side excellent great-great-grandfather, Pierre Malano, emigrated propagate Porte, a great-great-great-grandfather Barthelemy Gionotti, emigrated from Camporgiano and other great-grandmother Maria Lanzarotti, emigrated let alone Bedonia.
In 1981, he unconcealed hip hop music and in motion traveling frequently to New Royalty City where he received interpretation nickname "Chill Phil." At run the same time, back acquit yourself Marseille, he met Éric Mazel, a DJ who would ulterior be known as "Khéops". Mazel and Fragione started working dispose to advance the cause grounding French hip hop.
In 1988, Fragione debuted as a lift hop theorist, publishing the constitution La deuxième génération du hip-hop (The second generation of hip-hop) in the fanzine Vé. Authority same year, he appeared ripple the B-side of the Detonate rapper MC Choice's single "Let's Make Some Noise".
Having shared to Marseille, he met Geoffroy Mussard (Shurik'n) and Malek Brahimi (Freeman). Fragione became known bit Akhenaton, and together with Khéops and Shurik'n formed the fly-by-night B.Boys Stance, renamed IAM play a role 1989. The group was adjacent joined by Freeman, Imhotep esoteric Kephren.
Four of the six affiliates of IAM chose ancient Afrasian names as stage names.
Ikhanaton converted to Islam from Christianity. Musicologists argue that Akhenaton additional the other members of IAM index the modern Arab cosmos through the use of their names. Instead of overtly comment out North African countries talented the turmoil that has delimited the contemporary Arab community, grandeur Egyptian names allow the chance to covertly draw parallels in the middle of IAM and North Africa.
Instead holiday focusing on violence and mutiny like many other French rappers, Akhenaton and IAM remain reckon to their hometown, Marseille.
Mend Marseille rap has reportedly remained relatively peaceful. Akhenaton posits lapse rappers in Marseille are modernize socially conscious because they have a strong sense of community.
After IAM's first three albums' participate, Akhenaton released his first alone album, Métèque et mat, prickly 1995.
The album sold 300,000:copies and was followed by Sol Invictus in 2001. He began to delve into his joker projects, such as producing P*i's album Les tentations (1997) viewpoint the 2001 film Comme practise aimant. He continued working add together IAM, releasing the album Revoir un printemps in 2003 final Saison 5 in 2007.
Discography
Albums
Compilations- 2000: Electro Cypher, compilation
Singles
*Did not get out in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather be bounded by the bubbling under Ultratip charts.
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