Faf Larage
Faf Larage (also Faf La Rage, real name Raphael Mussard; * 1971 in Marseille ) is a French rapper from Marseille, who originally comes from the overseas department of Réunion.
Biography
Starting Faf has in the band Soul Swing radical end of the 90s he was but as an independent rapper on the go. With La garde dies mais ne se pas during 1998 he had a moderate success in the French singles chart with his older brother Shurik'n, a member of the IAM Rapformation. It was followed a year later with C'est ma cause his first solo album, which could build on the success.
In the following years, Larage established in the French rap with their own singles and collaborations, but other hits were once made . Only in 2003 did he again talked about along with the rapper plane. Two years before the song was Tavarès Gomez et Les Ripoux appeared in which it was about two corrupt cops. The director Gilles Paquet - Brenner took from this template the idea for a feature film ( Gomez & Tavarès, German title Pay Off - The billing ). For the soundtrack, the two rappers parodied a Polizistenduo, Eden was Gomez and Larage called Dubois ( the successor to the vanished Tavarès ). Together they recorded the classic Hotel California on as Rapparodie under the title " Hôtel Commissariat " for the film soundtrack. The whole thing called " Cop Rap " as a response to Gangsta Rap. Two top 10 singles threw this project from the album flics et hors la loi was not only successful in the charts, but was also nominated for the national French Victoires de la musique music award as a rap album of the year.
In the following years Faf Larage remained faithful to the movie. In 2004 he succeeded together with the IAM rapper Akhenaton another hit parade beginners. The song L' Américain was soundtrack to the eponymous French film directed by Patrick Timsit.
A theme music was also then helped him in 2006 to his big solo breakthrough and his greatest success. For the Prison Break U.S. series he recorded the theme song for the French style and the huge success of the television series followed the jump from Pas le temps at the top of the French charts, where the song was able to maintain itself for six weeks. Obtained also in the French-speaking parts of the neighboring countries, the rapper then great popularity and was No. 1 on the Belgian regional charts and in the top 10 of the official Swiss charts.