(PageFive – Music) Youssoupha feat. Corneille – Histoires Vraies.
Check it: Youssoupha, de son vrai nom Youssoupha Mabiki, est un rappeur français d’origine Congolaise né le 29 août 1979 à Kinshasa.
Due to the civil war in his native Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, he escaped at the age of ten with his mother to France. He grew up in the Paris suburbs, in the département of Yvelines.
Like so many young people in the French suburbs, he fell in love with hip-hop. He began at 14 years old to write hip-hop music for the first time. After a feature on a compilation of underground artists, he founded in 1998, the crew Frères Lumière. With it, he launched the single être né quelque part. After high school, Youssoupha decided to put his music career on hold and go to university.
In 2003 he went back into the music business, on the project Bana Kin. Under this name he brings together Congolese rappers in the album Tendance, in which he appreciates and gives tribute to the culture and music of his native country. A year later he joined the collective 3ème Underground. Besides these endeavors, he also worked as a solo artist and signed with Bomayé music, the label of his associates Philo. In 2005 he released his first solo album, recommencement Eternel, which promptly became the Street Album of the Year nominee. He then signed with the label Hostile.
By the end of 2006 Mixtape avant l’album appeared. The critics were highly positive of Youssoupha and voted him one of the most promising talents of French rap. His debut album on Hostile was A chaque frère, released in early 2007. The working title of Negritude was of great interest to the general public, generating popularity quickly, and the album was a huge success. Following this, Youssoupha took a break at home, but was always present with various ongoing projects.
In early 2009 he came back topping the charts fast and furious with the song La vie est speed for the film Fast and Furious 4. Later that year, he released Sur les Chemins du retour, his second album. Check it.
Check it. Youssoupha: Biographie, vidéos, extraits audio, dates de concerts et forum autour du rappeur français: Official Site.
Corneille
Cornelius Nyungura (born 24 March 1977) is a singer, songwriter and performer of R&B music, who performs under the name Corneille. He was born at Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany to Rwandan parents, though he currently holds a Canadian passport and sings in French and English. His work is greatly influenced by American funk and soul music; among those he admires are Prince, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.
He was sixteen during the genocide. His mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi. An armed group entered the family home, killing his parents and siblings. Cornelius was a powerless witness to the massacre, he was spared because he hid behind a sofa. He fled to Zaire after days of walking, and found refuge with a German couple who were friends of his parents.
In July 1997, he left Germany to continue his studies in communications at the Concordia University of Montreal. A few months after arriving in Quebec, he made the acquaintance of Peter Gage and Martin Gardy (aka Gardy Fury), with whom he formed the group R’n’B O.N.E.
He dropped out of the band in January 2001, to pursue his solo career.
In 2002, he participated in several projects. He composed and wrote the title Tonight for compiling R & B COCKTAIL 2 (Ghetto R & B / Sony Music ), and the title If only we loved the album Hip Hop Folies (Sony Music), featuring; Passi, Daddy Mory, K-mel, Sniper, Nâdiya, Sheraz, MBE, Nathalie Loriot, and The Weasel.
Cornelius is working with the Red Cross to raise awareness of Canadian children victimized by war.
In 2006, he participated in the single Gold of our lives along with sixteen other artists, including; Kyo, Emma Bunton, Amel Bent, Matt Pokora, and with Princess Stephanie of Monaco, in association with Fight Aids Monaco, to help AIDS patients.
Toujours dans la même année, il est sollicité pour écrire la chanson représentant la France au concours Eurovision, ce qu’il accepte. Il dévoile la chanson Vous c’est nous lors de l’émission spéciale, présentée par Michel Drucker et Claudy Siar, au cours de laquelle les téléspectateurs français élisent la jeune Virginie Pouchain, révélée chez Pascal Sevran, comme l’artiste qui ira défendre les chances françaises à Athènes. Mais ce titre ne semble pas convaincre les organisateurs du concours et Corneille est invité à revoir sa copie. Finalement, c’est un autre titre, Il était temps, composé en urgence, qui sera retenu. Malgré tout, le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous, Virginie Pouchain n’arrivant qu’en vingt-deuxième position sur un total de vingt-quatre participants, à l’issue de la finale.
Le 9 septembre 2006, il épouse Sofia De Medeiros, sa compagne depuis cinq ans, dans une petite cérémonie au cœur des Laurentides, au nord de Montréal.
Il signe chez Motown, le 3 septembre 2007, pour son nouvel album The Birth of Cornelius, commercialisé aux États-Unis le 10 mars 2009 avec trois titres inédits.
Après un album anglophone, il revient sur la scène française avec un quatrième album studio co-écrit avec son épouse, intitulé, tout simplement, Sans titre, sorti le 19 octobre 2009. Entre temps, le 9 avril 2010, il a eu un heureux évènement, la naissance d’un premier enfant, un petit garçon, Merrik. Check it.
Check it: Corneille.ca – Site officiel de l’artiste Corneille – The official site of the artist Corneille.