Lefa

Karim Fall, better known by his stage name Lefa (born 28 November 1985 in Paris), is a French rapper and dancer.

He is a founding member of the French rap / hip hop collective Sexion d'Assaut.

He is the member who made homophobic remarks during an interview in June 2010, which shocks and casts suspicion on the whole group.

The group then declared “not knowing the meaning of the word 'homophobic'”.

Following the controversy, the group multiplied mea culpas and worked for militant anti-homophobia associations.

In March 2012, the group released the studio album entitled L'Apogée.

This is the last album in which Lefa appears with the group.

After that, he left with his family to live in Morocco.

During 2012, Lefa no longer appears on stage with the other members of the collective, the group says he is “on a musical break” to devote himself to his personal life, but promises a return soon.

Later in 2013, he was reintroduced back in taking part in their 2013 tour but at much lower key, with Lefa deciding to concentrate more on his solo work.

At the end of March 2013, Gims announced a possible return of Lefa in the Sexion d'Assaut during the 2013 tour.

He has also released solo materials in 2015 and 2016.

In June 2015 he released his debut solo album Monsieur Fall with big commercial success.

He was born to the Senegalese jazz musician Cheikh Tidiane Fall and his mother was a French choreographer and art therapist Christiane de Rougemont.

He grew up in the 18e arrondissement of Paris and his beginnings were in breakdance.

He has closely collaborated with artists Black M and Gims, also members of Sexion d'Assaut, appearing on many of their albums.

His friend Maître Gims named him Lefa (French slang for Fall, Lefa's family name).

2015-2016 was a veritable comeback with the release of the single "Quelques minutes" in 2015 and the album Monsieur Fall in February 2016.

The latter confided in an interview that he would explain in his autobiography, released in 2015, this mysterious departure:"'I have said I was going to explain why he was away. He is a music lover although he decided to take a step back. It's always been a guy like that Lefa. He often stopped, started again, stopped. There, he is in his period when he stopped, he is posed with his family. He had arranged it like this. But, out of respect for all the fans who follow us, we haven't talked about it openly, we haven't done any official stuff. I think it's best to explain this in a book'."On 5 June 2015, in Planète Rap on Skyrock radio, the singer Black M presents a “surprise” recording in which Lefa participates on the extract entitled Intro; However, Black M remains elusive about a possible return and states that audiences are going to have to brace themselves for a musical event originating from Lefa that will occur in the days to come.

On 22 July 2015, Lefa appeared on the title "Longue vie" featuring Gims, the fourth single from the latter's album, Mon cœur avait raison.

On 18 September 2015, Lefa published a second extract A few minutes.

On 16 October 2015, he unveiled his third single "Masterchef".

On 13 November 2015, he announced that the release of his first solo album, Monsieur Fall, was scheduled for 29 January 2016.

The fourth 20 years single was unveiled on 19 November 2015.

One week before the album's release, on 22 January 2016, he unveiled the fifth single "En terrasse".

At the same time, he unveils a series of clips from his #TMCP project (Tu m'connais pas).

He released his first solo album, titled Monsieur Fall, on 29 January 2016, which sold 10,800 copies during its first week of operation.

On 16 March 2016, he posted a new clip, but this time a featuring, it is the title "Dernier arrêt.".

A month later, on 16 April 2016, the clip for "Rappelle-la" was released.

Lefa published on 27 June 2016 the clip of "Reste branché" with Sexion d'Assaut, the second featuring of his album that he posted on YouTube.

A month later, the clip for "Grandi trop vite" came out on 29 July.

The album is now certified gold.

In 2016, Dawala, creator of the Wati B label, confirms the group's return in 2017, but it will not be.

A few months after the release of Monsieur Fall, the album was certified gold.

On 23 September 2016, Lefa released her first mixtape titled #TMCP, all of the songs of which are clipped ("On est en guerre", "Kiss Me", "Ça va mal terminer"...).

Born of a Senegalese jazz musician father, Cheikh Tidiane Fall and a French choreographer and art therapist mother, Christiane de Rougemont, he grew up in rue des Abbesses located in Paris in the 18th arrondissement.

During his teenage years he practiced dance, more specifically break dance.

Before founding Sexion d'Assaut, he was part of another group called Assonance with Scrib'R, M.K.X, Maska, L.I.O. Petrodollars and Barack Adama.

Lefa is one of the very first members of the Sexion d'Assaut, of which he is also one of the founders.

It was Gims who baptized him Lefa (verlan de Fall).