Francky Vincent
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Franck Vincent |
| Born | April 18, 1956 |
| Origin | Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe |
| Genres |
Adult Contemporary Cadence-lypso Compas Kadans World beat |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter Producer Manager Painter Comedian Writer |
| Instruments | Vocalist, Guitarist |
| Years active | 1975-present |
| Associated acts |
Universal Music Wagram Music Debs Music Liso Music Buda Music |
| Website | http://www.myspace.com/franckyvincentcebon |
| Past members | Tabou n°2 |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gwo Ka, Guitar | |
Franck Vincent (born April 18, 1956 in Pointe-à-Pitre) is a singer, song-writer, producer, painter, manager and musician of at least 170 songs from Guadeloupe. He is known for his provocative and sexually explicit lyrics, brutal outspokenness, and his charming smile. He is known for his single Fruit De La Passion, which is the most notable and successful of his career, selling over 700.000 copies in Metropolitan France, more than any other French Antilles solo singer.
He has sold a total of over 2 millions albums worldwide especially in francophone countries. He is considered by many to be the most popular and successful Guadeloupean solo singer, one of the Greatest Caribbean Artists of All Time and a well-known compas singer in France, as well as one of the most criticized.
Francky Vincent was born in Pointe-à-Pitre April 18, 1956, in Guadeloupe, in a modest family, an engineer father and a mother embroiderer. After a difficult childhood in red light districts of his native city, he abandoned his studies at two months of the bachelor to occupy the post of Clerical Officer in the service of social security registration of Pointe-à-Pitre, where there is dismissed after six months. In 1976 he left to do his military service in Guyana and came home the following year and became head of a store selling spare parts for light aircraft in Raizet.
In 1975, he joined a small, suburban compas group called Taboo No. 2 as a percussionist, and he traveled Guadeloupe with his henchmen to host weddings and dances. He released two albums, Ambition et Ti Paulette.
He decides to raise the group Taboo No. 2 shows a third album in 1978: Retour en Force.
Finally, he decides to go it alone and abandon Taboo No. 2 to write and compose obscene, even shocking songs. His first solo album, sold under the mantle, sold 50 000 copies.
Since the 1980s, Francky became known throughout the Caribbean community living in Paris or the Caribbean under the nickname "Doctor Porno," the Zoukeur X "or" Francky Maleli ". Despite a ban on air (which ultimately turned out to be very good publicity), his music appealed to tourists.
In 1990, he decided to produce his own music and created Francky Vincent productions. He began to sing more in French in order to challenge the majors and to develop nationally. The following year, his album Alice ça Glisse is a hit in the West Indies and sold more than 50 000 copies. At this time, he appears for the first time on stage in Paris Olympia. Following this, noting that the record companies still were not interested in him, he moved to Paris in February 1992.
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