French singer-songwriter M. Pokora aka Matt Pokora rose to prominence after
appearing on the French version of the TV reality show 'Popstars'. The singer
was born Matthieu Tota in Strasbourg in 1985 and is the son of André Tota, the
former French striker who played football for a number of well-known French
teams. In his early life, Tota had hoped to follow his father into professional
football but eventually chose music as a career and after appearing on the third
season of Popstars was chosen to be a part of a new boy band called Linkup.
The band enjoyed a brief period of su...