Artist: Grand Corps Malade
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Midi 20
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Midi 20 (Promo)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Grand Corps Malade was the alias of French knocker and urban poet Fabien Marsaud, a intersection of Paris' problematic northern suburb Seine-Saint-Denis natural July 31, 1977. A diving stroke suffered on his 20th birthday left Marsaud for good handicapped, inspiring the Grand Corps Malade sobriquet -- rough translated, the name agency "Large Sick Body" -- and forcing upon him the ubiquitous crutch that would become a key signature element of his stage act. Upon discovering "slam poetry" in 2003, Marsaud began committal to writing autobiographic rhyme and entry readings at the Parisian bar Collectif 129H. A quaker later suggested he set his poems to music, and in early 2006 he issued the first Grand Corps Malade LP, MIDI 20, a game assemblage decrying the racialism, poverty, and isolation endemic throughout suburban Paris. The disk proven an unexpected megahit, selling in excess of ccc,000 copies in less than six months and vaulting Marsaud to national ill fame.
