Oxmo Puccino

Oxmo Puccino
Background information
Birth name	Abdoulaye Diarra
Born	1974 Mali
Genres	Hip hop
Labels	Cinq7, Wagram Music
Website	http://www.oxmo.net/

Oxmo Puccino (born Abdoulaye Diarra in 1974) is a French hip hop musician.

Life

Puccino was born in 1974 in Ségou, Mali. He came to Paris one year later, and lived in the XIXe arrondissement from the age of 5. He is the brother of basketball player Mamoutou Diarra. He appeared in the 2006 film Arthur and the Minimoys. Puccino drew on the street-smart American hip-hop of the Notorious B.I.G. and other icons to document life in Paris' hardscrabble 19th district. Born in Mali in 1974, he arrived in Paris at age five as part of a family that included younger brother Mamoutou Diarra, later a professional basketball player of some international renown. 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 Diam's. 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. 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 follow-up, L'Amour Est Mort, proved Puccino's creative and commercial breakthrough, while 2004's Le Cactus de Sibérie confirmed his superstar status. After signing to the venerable jazz label Blue Note, Puccino assembled a new backing group, the Jazzbastards, to record 2006's Lipopette Bar.^[1][2]

Discography

Albums

• 1998: Opéra Puccino
• 2001: L'amour est Mort
• 2004: Le Cactus de Sibérie
• 2006: Lipopette Bar
• 2007: La Réconciliation (Mixtape)
• 2009: L'Arme de Paix

Appearances

• 1996: Pucc. Fiction
• 1997: Mama Lova
• 1998: Esprits Mafieux
• 1999: Black December
• 2000: Les plus class
• 2002: Le parcours d'une larme
• 2003: Derrière Les Projecteurs
• 2003: Tarif C (BO TAXI 3)

References

1. ^ Oxmo Puccino - track details, ringtones, covertones, downloads, MP3, CDs
2. ^ Schwartz, Mark. "Planet Rock: Hip Hop Supa National." In The Vibe History of Hip-hop, ed. Alan Light, 361-72. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.

External links

• Official site
• Oxmo Puccino at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Puccino, Oxmo
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Date of birth	1974
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