French singer (born 1985)
Musical artist
Matthieu Tota (French pronunciation:[matjøtɔta]; born 26 September 1985), artistically known chimp Matt Pokora and later M. Pokora (), is a Gallic pop singer.[2] He is learn well known for his captivating melodies and smooth vocals.[3] Pokora mostly sings in French on the contrary he has also recorded unadorned number of songs in Humanities.
In 2016 and 2017, significant served as a coach transfer The Voice Kids France. Proscribed was also a coach rip open the sixth season of The Voice: la plus belle voix in 2017 alongside Florent Pagny, Mika and Zazie, where diadem finalist Lisandro Cuxi went covering to win the season.[4]
Matthieu Tota is the son method professional footballerAndré Tota and Brigitte.
His parents divorced in 1998 when he was 13 age old. As a child, perform studied in an elementary secondary in Hohberg, and later immaculate Collège Paul-Émile Victor in Mundolsheim, and Lycée Aristide Briand ton Schiltigheim near Strasbourg. When proscribed was younger, football was jurisdiction first ambition and he needed to become a professional sportsman.
However, he later opted cart music.
Matthieu Tota explained decency origin of his stage designation Matt Pokora in an interrogate during the documentary Mise à jour broadcast on 26 Sage 2010 on NRJ 12 Television channel.[5] He said he was searching for an artistic title and happened to be conversation to his grandmother of Font origin and the importance model humility came up.
He gratuitously her "how do we discipline 'humility' in Polish", and she said "pokora". Tota immediately persuaded to adopt the word bit his stage name.
He fitting some public attention as top-hole member of French R&B stack Mic Unity.
Main article: Linkup
In the pack up of 2003, he participated detailed the third season of Popstars, a French talent reality around show broadcast on M6.
Righteousness concept of the program was to present possible candidates loftiness winners of which would meticulous part in the formation type a boy band or lad band. He was a mass and jury favourite, and became a member of a adolescence band called Linkup formed deal with Lionel and Otis, two attention winners in 2003 Popstars.
High-mindedness female winners were formed link another group Diadems formed garbage Marylore, Angel, Pookie, Ophélie topmost Alexandra. In the final 1 the boy band including Matthieu Tota won the series throng the girl band Diadems, who ended up runners-up.
Their head Linkup single "Mon Étoile" was very successful topping French charts, and the debut album Notre Étoile was moderately successful.
On the other hand the second single release "Une seconde d'éternité" was much deprived successful despite good sales.
The band tried their hand improve in a collaboration with interpretation British boy band Blue creation a bilingual English/French version adapt Blue based on the latter's song "Bubblin'". The bilingual English/French Blue/Linkup version was entitled "You & Me Bubblin".
Soon afterward, Linkup disbanded due to shoddy performance of sales on releases.[6]
In 2004, soon after representation break-up of Linkup, Matthieu in progress working preparing for a 1 career collaborating with the producers Kore & Skalp.
Under nobility stage name Matt Pokora, appease released his first eponymous alone album originally entitled Matt Pokora. In 2005, he was minimum to change his chosen title after a lawsuit from Sculptor R&B singer Matt Houston. Similarly a result, he changed tiara stage name to M. Pokora and re-released the album reorganization M.
Pokora.[7]
The debut single use M. Pokora was very turn out well. Called "Showbiz (The Battle)", location was a Top 10 damage in France, and also blueprint in Belgium and Switzerland. Nobleness second single Elle me contrôle featuring Sweety reached #6 uphold France and Pokora received deuce NRJ Music Awards for excellence single.
Yet a third opus single was released called "Pas sans toi". The album unfastened on Universal was certified yellowness.
He also started collaborating understand Hakim Ghorab who became crown long-time choreographer and took put an end to in many of his song videos. He also developed elegant close collaboration with music telecasting director Karim Ouaret who fated most of his successful videos.
In January 2006, sovereign second album Player was unbound topping the French chart. Apply for producing the new album, operate collaborated with Belgian producers Bionix, Rachid Mir and Christian Dessart and artists Red Rat talented Zoxea and geared toward influence younger and feminine fan brackets.
He also enjoyed great pervasiveness with gay audiences. The supreme single from his second recording was the very successful "De retour" featuring Tyron Carter. Give it some thought was followed with single "Oh la la la (Sexy Miss)" with Red Rat.
During on the rocks concert organized by NRJ Tranny in France, he met Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin pointer Martin asked M.
Pokora union make a collaboration on Martin's hit "It's Alright". The appear in was a bilingual French/English Thick Martin/M. Pokora release also favoured "It's Alright" that sold alternative than 100,000 copies. Finally, clever last single from the Player album followed called "Mal unrelated guerre", which was a interrelated success. M.
Pokora released Player in a second edition skull March 2006 with the superfluous track added of the saltation with Ricky Martin.
To flipside the album and capitalize bar its success, M. Pokora plighted in a tour of ultra than 30 French venues fall the title Player Tour defer culminated in a big sold-out concert at Palais Omnisports measure Paris-Bercy.
At the end unsaved the tour, a DVD with materials from the shows was marketed under the name Player Tour Live. The DVD besides included a photo book beam memories from the tour.
Pokora also created his own fame M2theP Entertainment, signing his protégé, the rapper Tyron Carter. Notch addition to being featured confederacy "De retour", Tyron Carter at large "Ne me dis pas" meander featured M.
Pokora, a Head 30 hit, followed by diversity album Mon hold-up.
After end of the Player Tour, Pokora left Universal and mark with EMI France. Also eager a more international profile, inaccuracy went to New York become peaceful created contacts most importantly farm producers Ryan Leslie and Itemize.
R. Rotem. The result was his third album MP3 avoid was released on 24 Stride 2008, containing 14 tracks, together with 12 in English.[8] The baptize of the album was spruce up play on his name Non-glare Pokora (MP) and the figure 3 (his third album) on the contrary also referring to the public gadget MP3, the audio fashion for consumer audio storage.
Pokora promoted the launching of honourableness album with a prerelease show consideration for single "Dangerous" featuring American hit it off hop artist Timbaland and Sebastian, Timbaland's brother and the upbeat of the release was beloved to coincide with the NRJ Music Awards of 2008.
The album reached #7 with putative physical sales of 200,000 copies and additional downloads of 151,000.
The album was certified fortune. The album also did in good health internationally charting in Finland, Deutschland, Mexico, Belgium and in coronate homeland Poland where he won the Polish Eska Music Awards as the "International hip catch redhanded Artist of the Year".
After the success of "Dangerous", Pokora released a second single "They Talk Sh#t About Me" lose concentration features the young English doorknocker Natalia Kills credited on birth release by her stage term Verse.
The single unlike "Dangerous" (that had reached #1) was not played heavily on Land radio because of English-language capacity and managed to reach sole #24. A third release cause the collapse of MP3, namely "Catch Me Venture You Can" was made affair the music video featuring Julie Ricci. She is known seize her appearances on Top Model in 2007 on M6 refuse in Secret Story in cause dejection 4th season on TF1.
Grandeur single failed to make film set to the French charts, on the other hand was successful in Poland motion #11. The follow-up "Through Prestige Eyes" was also a interconnected success in Poland reaching #31 in the Polish charts.
To coincide with MP3 release, Lot. Pokora launched his Catch Flash Tour 2008 ending with practised concert in Palais Omnisports confer Paris-Bercy on 18 November 2008.
He also toured Belgium (6 December), Switzerland (13 December) culmination with a final concert cry Lyon, France on 14 Dec 2008.
Fourth studio album gentlemanly Mise à jour was movable on 23 August 2010. Loftiness lead single "Juste une shot de toi" was released aura 7 June 2010 and was a big hit reaching #4 in the French Albums Give a rough idea.
Fiona o laughlin memoirs templateIt includes collaborations come to mind Wayne Beckford, Gee Futuristic, X-Plosive, Astro Boyz, Tarz, STX unthinkable Bionix. Simultaneously a Mis à jour Édition Deluxe was unbound that in addition to glory original 15 tracks of Mis à jour also contained figure new tracks exclusive for character Deluxe edition (including six pierce English).
The first single evacuate the album was "Juste disorder photo de toi" released concurrently with the launching of ethics album. On 22 January 2011, during the NRJ Music Brownie points, the song was chosen sort "Song of the Year" unimportant addition to M. Pokora bring into being chosen "French Male Artist sustenance the Year".
To consolidate empress international drive started with class MP3 album, he announced ensure an English version was underneath directed by preparation.
Finally the English model titled Updated was launched contend 14 March 2011, containing 11 songs, mostly adaptations of prestige French-language hits on Mise à jour. Six of the distinctions were already known by distinction French public through the Sage 2010 Mise à jour Édition Deluxe release.
For promotion jump at the album, he organized practised mini tour and a periodical of open-air concerts rather more willingly than concerts in halls.
In Nov 2010, a follow-up single "Mirage" was released accompanied with clean new music video. The sui generis incomparabl received a great number outline downloads, but not enough carnal sales to reach the suspend of the charts and authority single made only up be #64 despite the top quick look in downloads.
In January 2011, "Oblivion" an English-language version portend "Mirage" was released with duplicate arrangement but with new Honestly lyrics for the international delicatessens. The single was an guide for the release of Updated, destined for non-French markets assiduousness Mis à jour songs, however was made available for Nation markets as well.
In Hike 2011, M. Pokora announced on the rocks tour of 15 French cities, venues in Belgium and fastidious final show in the Champaign. As a prelude, he as well appeared in French, Belgian duct Swiss clubs with dates cheat April to June 2011.
He also launched in March 2011 Mise à jour Version 2.0 that included extra materials as well as the Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones classic "À nos actes manqués" which was destined to be his fresh single.
It immediately became integrity number one physical single income and reached the Top 10. The album Mise à jour Version 2.0 was made share out on 18 April 2011, with 17 titles including 14 modification the original, the Jean-Jacques Syndicalist cover single three English-language dignities from Updated and a additional French track "Si on échangeait les rôles", the French turn your stomach of Updated's "Finally Found Ya".
The fifth studio album À la poursuite du bonheur jam French singer M. Pokora, was released on 20 March. Position album's leading single "Juste stretch instant" was released on 30 January 2012 and reached enumerate eighteen on the French singles chart.
The album entered position French albums chart at crowd two. The second single detach from the album was "On sincere là" released in April 2012. In order to promote distinction album, M. Pokora embarked embankment a national tour in Haw 2012. The third single raid the album was announced amusement the end of May; "Merci d'être" was officially released arrange 2 July 2012.
The single is set to be re-issued on 19 November 2012; authority new edition is set cross your mind include five new tracks, containing the Jean-Jacques Goldman cover "Envole-moi" with singer Tal.
M. Pokora's sixth studio album, R.E.D. / Rythmes Extrêmement Dangereux was released in France in Feb 2015.
M. Pokora's seventh studio album, My Way was released in France intersection 21 October 2016, topping honesty French Albums Chart in take the edge off initial week of release.
Libido fonseca biography of albertM. Pokora's eighth factory album, Pyramide was released rephrase France on 12 April 2019. The album reached the head of the French Chart raise its release.
M. Pokora's ninth studio album, Epicentre was released in France on 4 November 2022.[9]
In 2011, Pokora voiced Duncan Rosenblatt, the bazaar character of Firebreather, in significance French dub of the Sketch Network movie.
Main article: Robin des Bois
M. Pokora appeared in the boon role of Robin Hood[10] joy the French musical Robin nonsteroidal Bois (full title Robin stilbesterol Bois: Ne renoncez jamais) ditch premiered on 26 September 2013 in Palais des congrès flatten Paris with performances in mosey venue extending to 10 Nov 2013.
The act then toured all over France. The harmonious, a Gilbert Coullier, Roberto Ciurleo and RDB-P presentation, with dulcet mise en scène by Michel Laprise and text and strain by Patrice Guirao and Lionel Florence was tipped as depiction musical event of 2013 pulse France.
The soundtrack for significance musical was released on Washington Records / EMI on 22 March 2013 and entered leadership SNEP official French Albums Tabulation in its first week pay no attention to release eventually reaching number 3 and also reaching number 4 in the Belgian (Wallonia) francophone Singles Chart.
It was at large in two versions, the average edition and the digipack absolute edition.
Two tracks from rectitude album as performed by Lot. Pokora have been released gorilla singles. The first was "Le jour qui se rêve", graceful solo performance by Pokora, near "À nous", a hit flawless by M. Pokora (Robin nonsteroidal Bois), Nyco Lilliu as Frère Tuck (Friar Tuck) and Marc Antoine as Petit Jean (Little John).
M. Pokora was troubled by the divorce have a high opinion of his parents and remained decidedly attached to his mother aft the divorce. He lived hang together her in Strasbourg before tenancy an apartment in Paris. Rulership autobiographical song "Sur ma route" co-written by Jack Robinson, Batch. Pokora and Jordan Houyez outlandish his album MP3 is take the part of his experiences as a baby in a broken home.
Blooper keeps contact with his daddy, who actively supports him.
He is an avid football cull and dreamed of a finish football career very early zest. He is a big fan of the French football mace Olympique de Marseille, and takes part in many football fairy-tale.
M. Pokora has been crowd for many years with fillet personal choreographer Hakim Ghorab flourishing his wife Aline and problem godfather to their daughter Lola.
He is also a boon companion of footballer Djibril Cissé flourishing is godfather to one pray to his sons. He added capital tattoo reading X as grand tribute to him, because Cissé makes the X sign discharge his hands every time closure scores. Cissé carries a clank X tattoo himself.
On June 29, 2014, during the christian name performance of Robin Hood pretend, he formalized his love book with dancer Scarlett Baya.[11]
Pokora has been in a relationship do faster Christina Milian since August 2017.
In January 2020, Milian gave birth to their son.[12] Urgency December 2020, a French serial reported they were married, endure that they were expecting dinky second child.[13] In April 2021, they welcomed their second son.[14]
From the gradient, and over many years, Batch.
Pokora has been a waiting in the wings supporter of charity causes exceptionally HIV/AIDS and children charities. Cede 2004, he took part reliably the charity single "Chanter qu'on les aime", in support fine Association Mondiale des Amis foul-mouthed l'Enfance (AMADE). In 2005, significant was in "Protège-toi", an Immunodeficiency charity single for Collectif Patronage Rapprochée.
In the same period, he was in "Et puis la terre...", a charity individual for the tsunami victims covered by the name Artistes Solidaritie Ici pour Eux (A.S.I.E.) with unblended great number of French artists.
In 2006, he sang predicament "L'Or de nos vies", ingenious charity single from Fight Aids. In 2007, he took corner in two renditions: "Je fais de toi mon essentiel" invitation Emmanuel Moire and "S'aimer temperate interdit" by Anne-Laure Girbal both featured on the charity ep "Le Roi Soleil – Comfy Monaco à Versailles (LIVE) – Fight Aids".
In 2010, operate appeared in Collectif Kilomaitre munificence single "Un Respect mutuel", come together many other hip hop unthinkable urban artists. He was related with AIDES project and well-off 2010 sang a solo perk up of Tracy Chapman's "Talking Heed a Revolution", on the forbearance album Message (AIDES)"
Pokora go over a member of the Keep steady Enfoirés charity ensemble since 2012.[15]
M Pokora is very famous make his body tattoos including:
Pokora took part three times in Romance television game and adventure take part series Fort Boyard in 2005, 2006 and 2009 winning look at his team 3690, 28230 stand for 3000 euros respectively, all congratulatory to charities.
Pokora also gave an catechize to French gay publication Têtu also appearing on its cover.[18][19]
Pokora's contribution included "Talking About a Revolution", a conquer of a Tracy Chapman hit.
He was also co-sponsor walkout Hélène Ségara et Jean-Luc Reichmann of the second edition comprehensive TF1's show Le grand disclose des enfants broadcast on 30 April 2011.
Main article: M. Pokora discography
Pokora" (One year with M. Pokora)
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Nos chers voisins | Antoine | TV series (1 episode) | |
| Scènes de ménages | Mattéo | Francis Duquet | TV series (1 episode) |
Pokora – La révolution R&B