French Montana

rapper.French Montana was born in Morocco North Africa. At the age of 13 he immigrated with his mother and his little brother to the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, leaving the rest of his family behind.In 2002 French Montana created the “Cocaine City” DVD imprint as a means to showcase his talent as an underground artist and a new voice from the New York streets. To gain a broader fan base, French incorporated interviews with major artists, as well as some up and comers. What started out as simply a medium for developing an audience quickly grew into one of the top selling “street DVD’s”, having sold nearly a million copies to date with national and international distribution.The international success of the DVD series helped to launch French’s rap career to an entirely new level. By creating and producing “Cocaine City,” French Montana evolved from an aspiring rapper in the streets of the Bronx, to the newest signee on platinum selling recording artist Akon’s record label, Konvict Music. By early 2009, French had flooded the streets with various mixtapes, including “Live from Africa,” “In Demand” with DJ Lazy K and “Laundry Man” with Evil Empire. His frequent collaborations with Harlem-bred rapper Max B have also helped keep a steady buzz, and helped fuel the success of the duo’s latest project, the mixtape/DVD combo “Coke Wave.” All togeather there have been 13 Cocaine City. DVDs as of 2009.WIKIPEDIA

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Lotfi Double Kanon

Lotfi was born on 06/07/1974 in Annaba, father of a worker is a mother at home.He grew up in a modest family composed of a brother and two sisters.All university graduates.Environment creation and motivation in him the thirst for knowledge.
Degrees:
BA-Mathematics series in 1992 in Annaba.
-Engineer status in 1998 in geology from the University of Annaba.
The modest income of her family motivated to take charge of her young age, so to purchase his first “synthesizer”, it had to do odd jobs for summer.
Lotfi produced models with a very archaic material to present to the local radio and make themselves known in the art.His second step will be passing Annabi on stage to present to the public this new style of Algerian music. The result was immediate and many young people as Lotfi s’identifièrent in carrying their message.DOUBLE KANON AND JUSTICE: During a live performance on stage Lotfi theater green Annaba summer 1997, he became acquainted with the intolerance of public authorities which have interrupted the show involving the texts too expressive in their words.This act ignited the crowd that met the force of law and order and who earned the label Lotfi singing “Rebel”.AND LOTFI Waheb: With his friend Waheb, lotfi formalize the group “DOUBLE KANON” by entering the studio to record the first album KAMIKAZE; opening the door of the long road that will go through the group .Last.fm

Grace Deeb

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Grace Deeb (Arabic: غريس ديب‎) is a Lebanese singer who was born in Beirut and began her career at the age of fourteen. She sings in various languages (Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Greek) and has two albums to her name. Her latter album was produced by the Saudi Arabian record company Rotana.Wikipedia

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