Celebrated french rapper Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his stage name as La Fouine,has announced that he will perform at the BK Arena in Kigali during the current Afrobasket tournaments.
On July 30, 2023, La Fouine, who is currently in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is anticipated to perform in Rwanda to warm up the contestants for the match between Angola and Rwanda.
He last visited Kigali in July 2022 to perform at the “Africa in Colors” festival
Who is La Fouine?
La Fouine, with additional aliases such as Fouiny Babe or just Fouiny, is a French-Moroccan rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is owner of Banlieue Sale and clothing line “Street Swagg”.
Born in Trappes in a family of seven children to Moroccan parents from Casablanca, La Fouine grew up outside Paris in the Yvelines.
He left school at the age of fifteen to devote himself to rap and took his first music lessons. La Fouine, who was called “Forcené” was an active member of the collective “GSP”.
It was part of the short-lived group “FORS” with DJ RV (Hervé), Le Griffon (Tarek Medimegh) And LaylaD (Layla Melloni Forcé), created mainly to participate at 2 R puissance ART in La Verrière, where he won the second prize.
Since then, Laouni married, then divorced after becoming the father of a little girl, born in 2002, named Fatima, named after La Fouine’s mother. His mother’s death in 2005 inspired his song “Je regarde là-haut” He also experienced dark periods in foster homes and prisons.
“I was only fifteen when I was expelled from school and placed in foster homes. I became an insomniac most of the time. But it did not take me to sleep with me, if the cops were looking for me directly. I slept with people in cars, premises, etc…It was misery”, he said to the magazine Planète Rap.
