| Oxmo Puccino | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Abdoulaye Plea Diarra |
| Alias: | Jon Smoke Jonxmoke Black Desperado Black Popeye Black Jacques Brel Jacques Brel du hip-hop |
| Birth Date: | 3 August 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Ségou, Mali |
| Origin: | Paris, France |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Occupation: | Rapper, singer, songwriter, composer |
| Label: | Cinq7, Wagram Music |
| Website: | https://www.oxmo.net/ |
Abdoulaye Plea Diarra (pronounced as /fr/; born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino (pronounced as /fr/, pronounced as /it/), is a 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.[1] [2] [3] [4]
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.
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Charts | Certification | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[5] | [6] | [7] | ||||
| 1998 | Opéra Puccino | — | 7 | — | ||
| 2001 | L'amour est mort | 37 | 13 | — | ||
| 2004 | Le cactus de Sibérie | — | 20 | — | ||
| 2007 | Lipopette Bar | — | 22 | — | ||
| 2009 | L'arme de paix | 41 | 8 | 68 | ||
| 2012 | Roi sans carosse | 28 | 15 | 41 | ||
| 2014 | Au pays d'Alice | 113 | 43 | — | ||
| 2015 | La voix lactée | 147 | 34 | 84 | ||
| 2019 | La nuit du reveil | 63 | 17 [8] | 47 | ||
Live albums
| Year | Album | Charts | Certification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Black Tour Desperado | 154 | ||
| 2010 | Minutes magiques | — |
| Year | Single | Charts | Certification | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | "Mama Lova" (Kheops / Oxmo Puccino) | 96 | ||
| "Amour et Jalousie" | — | |||
| "Le mensongeur" | 55 | |||
| 1999 | "L'enfant seul" | 84 | ||
| "Le jour ou tu partiras" | — | |||
| 2001 | "Ghetto du monde" | — | ||
| 2002 | "Avoir des potes" | 52 | ||
| 2004 | "Quand j'arrive / J'ai mal au mic" | — | ||
| "On danse pas" | — | |||
| 2015 | Une Chance | — | ||
| Year | Single | Charts | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | "Bal de Bamako" (M, Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté feat. Fatoumata Diawara & Oxmo Puccino) | 140 | Lamomali | ||
| 2019 | "26 décembre 1999" (Lacrim feat. Oxmo Puccino) | 130 | Lacrim | ||
| 2022 | "ça veut rien dire" (Achile feat. Oxmo Puccino) | align="center" | - | Achile |