20syl
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Sylvain Richard (born February 17, 1979), better known by his stage name 20syl (pronounced "vain-seel", ), is a French rapper, disc jockey, and producer. He is a composer and MC in the group Hocus Pocus, a member of the beatmaker collective of DJs C2C, one half of the Hip-Hop/electronic duo AllttA, and the quadruple world champion DMC Team. He published his first EP, Motifs, in 2014, followed by Motifs II in 2015.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1979
Discography
- 10YRS2014
- Game Set & Match II2014
- Motifs2014
- Bet Dap Goom Bown2015
- Motifs II2015
- Inertia2016
- 36 (Beats & Types)2020
- Bagarre2021
- Break My Soul (20syl Remix)2022
- The Purge / Rapfix Cypher (20syl Remix)2022
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- Listeners
- 138,456
- Total plays
- 2,089,744
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20syl (pronounced "vinsil" - from his first name Sylvain) is a beatmaker/producer, DJ and MC from Nantes, France. Besides pursuing a solo-career, he takes part in a lot of projects, with the acoustic hip-hop / nujazz group Hocus Pocus (MC and producer/mastermind) and 2003-2006 DMC World Team winners C2C (one out of four DJs) being most prominent. He is known for his heavy jazz/soul/funk influence. 20syl has also collaborated with the alternative hip-hop act The Procussions, and most recently con
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sylvain
- Family name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nantes
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- electronic music
- Official website
- www.onandon-records.com
- Image
- 2017-07 Natural Games Concert Alltta 01.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1979-02-17
- name in native language
- 20Syl
- Commons category
- 20syl
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- social media followers
- 229000
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- Biography
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- Collaborative albums
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Sylvain Richard (born February 17, 1979), better known by his stage name 20syl (pronounced "vain-seel", ), is a French rapper, disc jockey, and producer. He is a composer and MC in the group Hocus Pocus, a member of the beatmaker collective of DJs C2C, one half of the Hip-Hop/electronic duo AllttA, and the quadruple world champion DMC Team. He published his first EP, Motifs, in 2014, followed by Motifs II in 2015.
During his career, he also produced for artists and groups such as Diam's, Disiz, Kohndo, Slum Village, Fabe, Scred Connexion, Nakk, and Sully Sefil and was involved in projects such as Just Us vol.1 or Original Bombattak.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “20syl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.