Biography
L'Algérino, whose real name is Samir Djoghlal was born 2 May 1981 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. He is a French-Algerian rapper whose family came from Khenchela, Algeria. A childhood friend of JUL, he was discovered in 2001 by rapper Akhenaton, a member of the IAM group, who signed him on his 361 Recordz label, and in which he published his first album " Les derniers seront les premiers" (English: The Last Shall Be the First), in June 2005. Aged 25, L'Algérino becomes the first Marseille artist signed on an independent Paris label, the Sinik Six-O-Nine.
