Keny Arkana

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the early 1980s, Onora Dafor, a young woman of Argentine origin, lives a difficult youth in homes where she runs away regularly, despite all this environment that will see her write her first texts, she begins to rapper in 1996 and draws inspiration from her illustrious elders, such as Assassin or NTM. At the end of the 1990s, the Marseille rap saw its most beautiful hours with among others the effervescence of the Fonky Family, Onora landed in the Phocean city soon to infiltrate and joined the State Major an underground collective that will allow him to make himself known to the Marseille public through numerous concerts, mix-tapes and radio broadcasts; It is at this moment that the one who was called Keny apose behind Arkana's name in reference to the character of the series Les Mondes Enguloutis . Rappeuse but also adventurer, she decided to travel and travel the world Evolving solo since 2003, she presented herself the following year for the first time in front of the public of the capital, performing the first parts of Dany Dan and Sinik, and actually launched her career in 2005 by recording L'Esquisse son premier Mix-Tape, which already opens doors, majors court her, but it is finally Because Music that will record her signature. A year passed, Entre Ciments Et Belles Etoiles his first album is ready and already guarantees the maturity of his texts, follow from the first parts of Manu Chao , concerts in festivals like the Eurockéennes de Belfort and Disobedience an EP as a reminder bite, following which Keny Arkana decides to take back his backpack and fly again towards new horizons, in order to aerate but also to get away from this growing notoriety that does not suit him. It will take him three years to come back and dive back into his music, in 2011 the second part of his mix-tape L'Esquisse is born and the spectre of a second album is not far away, Tout Tourne Autour du Soleil is announced by the end of 2012, even better armed than its predecessor this new galette is full of texts punched at the world as it is today.