Abd al Malik

From Brazzaville to the suburbs of Strasbourg and then to the intellectual circles of Paris, from extremist Islam to the wisdom of Sufism, from underground rap and NAP to a rap influenced by jazz, slam, Persian poetry and philosophy, Abd al Malik (born Régis Fayette-Mikano in 1975) has already lived several lives before becoming a key artist on the hip-hop scene of the 2000s. His debut works Le Face à Face des Coeurs (2004) and Gibraltar (2006) were followed by ambitious albums where rap and slam met chanson and jazz in Dante (2008) and Château Rouge (2010). That same year, he received the Prix Félix-Faure for his essay La guerre des banlieues n'aura pas lieu. After directing the film based on his novel Qu'Allah bénisse la France, released in cinemas in 2014, Abd al Malik returned to music with an album produced by Laurent Garnier, Scarifications.

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