Akhenaton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Akhenaton
Occupation	Rapper
Date Of Birth	Sep 17, 1968(1968-09-17)
Age	56
Birthplace	3rd arrondissement of Marseille
Country	France
Birth City	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Horoscope	Capricorn

Akhenaton Biography

Akhenaton is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on September 17, 1968 in 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, Provence-Alpes- Côte d'Azur, France. Akhenaton was born Philippe Fragione in Marseille in 1968, and spent his youth in Plan-de-Cuques, a small village on the outskirts of the city. His family is of Italian origins. His paternal grandmother, Immacolata Scotti, was of Campanian descent, his great-grandfather Francesco Fragione, emigrated from Sperlonga and on his maternal side a great-great- grandfather, Pierre Malano, emigrated from Porte, a great-great-great- grandfather Barthelemy Gionotti, emigrated from Camporgiano and another great- grandmother Maria Lanzarotti, emigrated from Bedonia. In 1981, he discovered hip hop music and started traveling frequently to New York City where he received the nickname “Chill Phil.” At about the same time, back in Marseille, he met Éric Mazel, a DJ who would later be known as “Khéops”. Mazel and Fragione started working together to advance the cause of French hip hop.

After IAM’s first three albums’ success, Akhenaton released his first solo album, Métèque et mat, in 1995. The album sold 300,000 copies, and it was followed by Sol Invictus in 2001. He began to delve into his other projects, such as producing Passi’s album Les tentations (1997) and the 2001 film Comme un aimant. He continued working with IAM, releasing the album Revoir un printemps in 2003 and Saison 5 in 2007.

Akhenaton Net Worth

Akhenaton is one of the richest Rapper from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akhenaton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Philippe Fragione (Italian: [fradʒone] ), better known by his stage name Akhenaton (born 17 September 1968, Marseille), is a French rapper and hip hop producer of Italian origin. He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza, and Spectre. He became famous as a member of the group IAM, and has since made a number of records, both with IAM and as a solo artist.

In 1988, Fragione debuted as a hip hop theorist, publishing the essay La deuxième génération du hip-hop (The second generation of hip-hop) in the fanzine Vé. The same year, he appeared on the B-side of the US rapper MC Choice’s single “Let’s Make Some Noise”. Having returned to Marseille, he met Geoffroy Mussard (Shurik’n) and Malek Brahimi (Freeman). Fragione became known as Akhenaton, and together with Khéops and Shurik’n formed the group B.Boys Stance, renamed IAM in 1989. The group was later joined by Freeman, Imhotep and Kephren.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Akhenaton Dating?

According to our records, Akhenaton married to Aïcha Fragione. As of December 1, 2023, Akhenaton’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Wilko Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Akhenaton celebrates birthday on September 17 of every year.

What was Akhenaten best known for?

Akhenaten came to power as the pharaoh of Egypt in either the year 1353 or 1351 BCE and reigned for roughly 17 years during the 18th dynasty of Egypt’s New Kingdom. Akhenaten became best known to modern scholars for the new religion he created that centered on the Aten.

What did the Akhenaten do?

Akhenaten was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt. He is famous for changing the traditional religion of Egypt from the worship of many gods to the worship of a single god named Aten. Akhenaten was born in Egypt around 1380 BC.

What god did Akhenaten?

Akhenaten’s exclusive worship of the sun god Aton led early Egyptologists to claim that he created the world’s first monotheistic religion. However, modern scholarship notes that Akhenaten’s cult drew from aspects of other gods—particularly re-Harakhte, Shu, and Maat—in its imagining and worship of Aton.

What happened to Akhenaten?

During his 17-year rule, Akhenaten sought to overturn more than a millennium of Egyptian religion and art to establish the worship of a single sun god. In the end, his bold experiment failed and he was eventually succeeded by his son, the young Tutankhamun, who rolled back his reforms and restored the old religion.

Was Akhenaten a bad pharaoh?

The preponderance of the evidence, both from the Amarna letters and from Tutankhamun’s later decree, as well as archaeological indications, strongly suggests that Akhenaten was a very poor ruler as far as his subjects and vassal states were concerned and his reign, in the words of Hawass, was “an inward-focused regime …