Birth name Sebastian Rocca Website Official website Name Sebastian Rocca | Role French rapper | |
Genres French RapFrench hip hopHip hopRap Nominations Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song Music director La vida loca, The Cinema Hold Up Similar People | ||
Rocca (full name Sebastian Rocca) is a French-Colombian Rapper and Producer born in April 1975, in Paris. Rocca is known as one of the best lyricist in French Rap. He gained recognition as a rapper during the 1990s as a part of the influential rap group, La Cliqua.
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The La Cliqua years
As a part of La Cliqua, Rocca toured radios and stages, and then released, in 95, a first EP, now considered a master piece of French Rap: "Concu pour durer" (Built to Last) on Arsenal Records. Rocca delivered, for the first time on record, his then eccentric rhyming style alongside his microphone associates: Daddy Lord C, Kohndo, Raphael and Egosyt. The record was an immediate success in the French Hip-Hop scene. Quickly Arsenal Records signed with major label Barclay, and La Cliqua worked on their next project released in 1996 as a compilation album: "Arsenal Represente le Vrai Hip-Hop" (Arsenal represents the Real Hip-Hop). The record featured all members of La Cliqua and their young affiliates: Petit Boss and Cercle Vicieux. Critically acclaimed, La Cliqua became a major feature on the French Hip-Hop landscape. They opened for Arrested Development at the Olympia in Paris and performed in New York at the Zulu Nation Anniversary. Following in the footsteps of "Represente le Vrai Hip-Hop", Rocca was the first emcee from La Cliqua to release a solo album: "Entre Deux Monde" which featured Kohndo on: "Mot pour mot" and "Rap Contact 2". In 1997, Egosyst, Rocca's rhyme partner on "Coup d’Etat Phonique" decided to leave La Cliqua.
The Tres Coronas years
Tres Coronas formed in New York City in 2001 by Rocca, fellow Colombian rapper P.N.O. with Dominican rapper Reychesta "Secret Weapon".
La Cliqua Reunion
In April 2008, Rocca and the other members of La Cliqua (minus Raphael) came back together for a performance at the Festival l'Original in Lyon. This successful, unexpected, reunion which resurrected on stage some of La Cliqua's classic repertoire, was followed in January 2009 by a sold out concert in Paris, at the Elysee Montmartre.
With La Cliqua
With Tres Coronas
As A Solo Artist
Notable appearances
a de los muertes on Big Red's album, Big Redemption
Rocca Feat Raphael - Sous un grand ciel gris on the compilation Le Groove prend le makiLa Cliqua - Les quartiers chauffent on the compilation L'univers des lascarsRocca Feat Hamed Daye, Shurik'n & Kery James - Animalement votre on the compilation Premiere classe Vol.1Appears in CAN I KICK IT ? #2
Tu le reconnais with Alpha Wann
Rocca - Le Calme sous la Pluie (EP) 2012 released on the 18 June on iTunesSongs
Falsedades
Les jeunes de l'univers
El dia de los muertes
Sous un grand ciel gris
Generation hip hop
El Original
El consejo
Mille Et Une Raisons
Bogota Paris
De Vuelta a Lo Real
Mythomanesfr
Amour Supreme Special Guest Jayhem
Retour a la source
A l'ancienne
Le hip hop mon royaume
Rap Controle
La Vida Loca
Avec la lune
Pour exister
Asalto
El Limite Es el Cielo
Rap contact II
Au Lieu de Se Faire la Guerre
Guerreros
Vatos Locos
Larmes assassines
Por Existir
Lagrimas Asesinas
Con la Luna
Mot pour mot
Hip hop mon royaume
Sarbacane 2003