Artist: Matt Pokora
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
De Retour
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Like Justin Timberlake in front him, France's M. Pokora rehabilitated his boy-band pinup image by channeling the pop up and R&B influences of his youth to create a slickly modern interpretation of white-haired mortal. Born Matthieu Totta in Strasbourg on September 26, 1985, he first base earned attention as a appendage of the rap group Mic Unity, which in fall 2003 appeared on the megahit television system show window Popstars. Totta was such a crowd favorite that Popstars' producers installed him in a spinoff boy band called Linkup. The trio's debut single, "Mon Étoile," topped the French charts, but the followup, "Un Seconde d'Éternité," flopped and when their debut LP, Notre Étoile, met a similarly forbidding fate, the show pulled the plug. Totta presently resurfaced as Matt Pokora, enjoying newfound creative and commercial success by teaming with hip-hop producers Kore & Skalp to record his self-titled 2005 debut, a major hit buoyed by the singles "Showbiz" and "Elle Me Contrôle." In the waken of the disc's winner, French vocalizer Matt slapped Pokora with a causa, claiming the similarities 'tween their names and music was the source of market place confusedness. As a resultant role, 2006's Bionix-produced Instrumentalist arrived credited to M. Pokora.
Marques Houston
