Abdel Karim Fall, better known by his stage name Lefa (born 28 November 1985 in Paris), is a French rapper and dancer.
He was born to the Senegalese jazz musician Cheikh Tidiane Fall and his mother was a French choreographer and art therapist Christiane de Rougemont.
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.
Born of a Senegalese jazz musician father,[1] Cheikh Tidiane Fall and a French choreographer and art therapist mother, Christiane de Rougemont,[2] he grew up in rue des Abbesses located in Paris in the 18th arrondissement.
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.
[6]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.
[7] He released his first solo album, titled Monsieur Fall, on 29 January 2016, which sold 10,800 copies during its first week of operation.
[10] 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.
[13] 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"...).
On 14 August 2017, Lefa officially announced the release of his second solo album entitled Visionnaire, available a little over a month later, on 22 September 2017.
22 September is D-Day: after seven and a half months of communication on songs that have worked less on YouTube and radio than the extracts of Monsieur Fall, the famous and long-awaited Visionnaire is finally revealed.
On 19 October , he released the clip of "J'me Téléporte" with Dadju and S.Pri Noir which will accumulate more than 250,000 views in 1 day and 1 million in 1 week.
He then created his own label "2L Music" and released by surprise his Extended play Next album est dans mon phone, 24 April.
[17] then the second single "Bitch" featuring rapper Vald[18] who will meet with enormous success and which will enter the Playlist on many radio stations 1 year after "Paradise".
The video reveals the featuring with Dosseh, Caballero & JeanJass, Tayc, Megaski or even Abou Tall.
He says in the song "Spécial" with Dosseh that the clips are too expensive and they therefore decide to replace them with lives ("Pause", "Maniaque" or "Château de Versailles").
On Wednesday 31 March 2021, Lefa announces on its networks the release of a surprise album entitled D M N R (Minesweeper) with a poignant teaser in which we hear him kicked on drill.