Oxmo Puccino
Born
4 August 1974 (51)
Place of Birth
Ségou, Mali
Also known as
Abdoulaye Diarra
Biography
Abdoulaye Plea Diarra (born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino, is a French-Malian rapper. 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 and drawing on the street-s...
Abdoulaye Plea Diarra (born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino, is a French-Malian rapper. 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 and drawing on the street-smart American hip-hop of the Notorious B.I.G. and other icons to document life in Paris' hardscrabble 19th district. 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 star status. After signing to the venerable jazz label Blue Note, Puccino assembled a new backing group, the Jazzbastards, to record 2006's Lipopette Bar. In 2007, rapper Styles P. used the instrumental of "Black Desperado" in his own album Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman), in the song "Holiday". The track was produced by DJ Green Lantern. In 2011, he was in a Nike ad promotion reciting a passage from Cyrano de Bergerac. He has appeared in 2011 music video for "1990" by Orelsan, as a tribute to the 1990s. He was invited to sing the track in Orelsan's live tour as a guest in the Paris Olympia gig in 2012. He is featured as the spoken word artist on Ibrahim Maalouf's track, "Douce", from the 2011 studio album, "Diagnostic". Puccino was born in 1974 in Ségou, Mali. He came to Paris one year later, and lived in the 19th arrondissement from the age of 5. Oxmo Puccino is the older brother of the French international basketball player Mamoutou Diarra. Source: Article "Oxmo Puccino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography (26)
Oxmo Puccino à l'Adidas Arena
2026
Arco
2025
Lamomali avec -M- aux Francofolies de La Rochelle
2025
Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales
2023
Paname, Le Grand Paris du Rap
2023
Classico
2022
MST : Moyennement Sûr du Titre
2022
A Flower in the Mouth
2022
Le festival des festivals
2020
French Game
2019
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
Symphonic Hip Hop 2
2017
Ibrahim Maalouf - Alcaline le Concert
2015
Adama: The World of Wind
2015
Au Pays d'Alice d'Ibrahim Maalouf et Oxmo Puccino
2015
Black Moon
2014
Oxmo Puccino: Pam pa nam
2013
Les Clippeurs
2013
EJM QUI EST-IL ?
2011
Conte de la frustration
2010
Maybe Tomorrow
2008
Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
Satan
2006
Génération Rap RnB 2
2004
Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim
2003
Rap Attack
2002