Sinik

Dubbed “the French Eminem,” rapper Sinik was created Thomas Idir in Paris on June 26, 1980. Blessed to a family group heralding from Algeria’s mountainous Kabylie area, he survived a stressed youth proclaimed by several jail stints by channeling his anger into hip-hop, with age group 14 befriended another aspiring rapper, Mélanie Georgiades, better known by her stage alias Diam’s. In 1996 Idir co-founded the group L’Amalgave with close friends Agoudjil Djamel, Oudjehih Anis, and Lalmi Tarek. Afterwards renamed Ul’Team Atom, the lineup splintered following a group of mixtape performances, and in 2000 the very first solo Sinik discharge, the EP Malsain, implemented over the 3.5.7 label. After co-founding his very own Six o Nine label, Sinik released the full-length Artiste Triste in 2003. The record demonstrated a significant underground strike, and in middle-2004 he agreed upon to main label Warner Bros., which released the double-platinum La Primary sur le Coeur early the next calendar year. The blockbuster Sang Froid strike retail within the springtime of 2006.