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Didier Maxim Amar M'bengue, very soon abandoned his native town, too landlocked to settle in the area of fresh naive to Mboro. The adult child suddenly decides to stop his schooling in twelfth grade. Filled with resentment, and convinced of his talent, neophyte joined the group "Family Mc" where he took his first steps into rap. In 1998 he decided to stand on its own, as the fetish of "Dread Maxim" which means according to him, Maxim, the ugly.
This explains the name of the singer will "want to sound like a affrosité, to ward off evil forces." Dread Maxim engages the winding path of Rastafari, his fellow country inspired by Bob Marley Jamaican. Place a newspaper called him already, "Prince Rasta". The singer sharpens more and teases her voice better jerky rhythms of reggae until the day the German pianist Steven Toeteberg, owner of Studio Yes to quote Biagui Yoff in Dakar, falls under his spell. They misèrent their sub in a production that became the first tape of a reggae singer, originally from the region of Thies.

In "Revelation", released in August 2000, the multilingual singer speaks French, Wolof, Serer and English, thereby addressing and without restraint the themes of peace, unity and African First, the love, deprived children ... 8 tracks on this tape has become his war horse that allowed him to perform live around Dakar, Thies or Mboro to 5 of 5. In this box now become popular, he became the star home. Today more than ever, it intends to move forward with what he calls his vocation proudly "world citizen". The first disc stamped Dread Maxim released on the market. But it is his Jah (2003) his second production which has given thrills throughout Senegal. "I did almost all regions when the album came out and I realized that people took up the chorus when I sang. I told myself then that message may have come in people's minds, "says the reggeaman.
Part of the group company in Akiboulane Ass Malick, Sun Souley and Countryman, among other fans of reggae, Dread is preparing to release its third generation. Politics, AIDS will occupy an important place, promises Dread. Rejoyce, a production company located in Versailles has already released their song Hope in a compilation of pop, rock, reggae, gospel and electronica.

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