
Oxmo Puccino
Known for ActingBorn 1974-08-04 (age 51)Ségou, Mali
Abdoulaye Plea Diarra (born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino, is a French-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. In 2007, rapper Styles P. used the instrumental of "Black Desperado" in his own album Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman), in the song "Holiday". The track was produced by DJ Green Lantern. In 2011, he was in a Nike ad promotion reciting a passage from Cyrano de Bergerac. He has appeared in 2011 music video for "1990" by Orelsan, as a tribute to the 1990s. He was invited to sing the track in Orelsan's live tour as a guest in the Paris Olympia gig in 2012. He is featured as the spoken word artist on Ibrahim Maalouf's track, "Douce", from the 2011 studio album, "Diagnostic". 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. Source: Article "Oxmo Puccino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more
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Paname, Le Grand Paris du Rap
2023 · Movie
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Lamomali avec -M- aux Francofolies de La Rochelle
2025 · Movie
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Rap Attack
2002 · Movie
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Arco
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Ibrahim Maalouf - Alcaline le Concert
2015 · Movie
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Conte de la frustration
2010 · Movie
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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · Movie
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MST : Moyennement Sûr du Titre
2022 · Movie
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Adama: The World of Wind
2015 · Movie
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C à vous
2009 · Series
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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018 · Movie
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Satan
2006 · Movie
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In Your Dreams
2005 · Movie
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Classico
2022 · Movie
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Little Brothers
1999 · Movie
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Clique
2013 · Series
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Victoires de la musique
1985 · Series
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Maybe Tomorrow
2008 · Movie

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Oxmo Puccino à l'Adidas Arena
2026 · Movie

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À la poursuite de Claude Lelouch
2026 · Movie

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Lovamatique
2025 · Movie

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Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales
2023 · Movie

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A Flower in the Mouth
2022 · Movie

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Le festival des festivals
2020 · Movie

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French Game
2019 · Movie

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Symphonic Hip Hop 2
2017 · Movie

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High & Fines Herbes
2017 · Series

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Au Pays d'Alice d'Ibrahim Maalouf et Oxmo Puccino
2015 · Movie

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Black Moon
2014 · Movie

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Les Clippeurs
2013 · Movie

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Oxmo Puccino: Pam pa nam
2013 · Movie

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EJM QUI EST-IL ?
2011 · Movie

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Génération Rap RnB 2
2004 · Movie

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Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim
2003 · Movie