Stomy Bugsy | |
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 Stomy Bugsy in 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Gilles Duarte |
| Born | 21 May 1972 Paris, France |
| Origin | Paris, France |
| Genres | French rap |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, actor |
| Years active | 1991-present |
Gilles Duarte (French pronunciation: [ʒil dwaʁte]; born 21 May 1972), better known by his stage name Stomy Bugsy, is a French rapper and actor from Sarcelles, France.[1]
Born in Paris on 21 May 1972 from Republic of Cape Verde, Duarte co-founded hip hop band Ministère AMER in the early 90s. In 1996, he started a solo career with the album Le Calibre qu'il te faut (The calibre that you need) and found great success with the single "Mon papa à moi est un gangster". Going on to release 5 more full-length solo albums, 10 collaborative albmus including one live record with hip-hope collective Secteur Ä. His latest solo release is Royalties in 2015, released online on April 27, 2015.
Duarte has also had several acting roles especially Ma 6-T va crack-er in 1997, 3 Zeros in 2001, Gomèz and Tavares in 2003, Nèg maron in 2005 and Anna Meyer, assistante de choc in 2006, Aliker in 2008 which he portrayed André Aliker, a Martinique Communism journalist in the 1930s, he later appeared in Bye Bye Blondie (2012), an adaptation of a book by author Virginie Despentes.
His origin of the stage name was known in the 1980s his second part of the name Bugsy is named after the mafia Bugsy Siegel
He has two sons, Bilal, born in 1992, who started a rapping career in 2014 under the stage name Sonof, and Lat Dior born in 2013
Stomy Bugsy is the nephew of the former Thai boxing champion Aurelién Duarte.
With Ministère AMER:
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