Massilia Sound System is a reggae band from Marseille, France, formed in the early 1980s.

Band member Tatou has said that the French government "still sees regional cultures that are not the language of the court of Versailles as exotic, folkloric, bizarre – cute but unimportant".

albums have incorporated more rock sounds, with deepening explorations into world music, such as the use of tabla, and make further incursions into drum and bass and hip-hop.

In an interview with CNN, Papet Jali said that "The National Front with [Marine] Le Pen came up strongly in Marseille, 28% in the local polls, which was shameful to us, and we reacted to that by singing.

[citation needed] On 18 July 2008, Lux B, one of the singers of Massilia Sound System, died at the age of 47 after battling an illness for some time.