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 re...