Majyuran Ragunathan (, born 21 April 1989), better known by his stage name Majoe is a German
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backin ...
per of
Sri Lankan Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
People, culture and language
* Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...
descent. He is signed by the
Farid Bang
Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui (born 4 June 1986), better known as Farid Bang, is a German gangsta rapper and bodybuilder of Spanish- Moroccan descent. He’s from a part of Spain that’s on the North African coast, bordering Morocco. His pare ...
-owned label Banger Music Records since 2012.
Career
Majoe was born in
Duisburg
Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...
, Germany, the son of
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
People, culture and language
* Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...
immigrants. His family fled from the
Sri Lankan Civil War to Germany. At the age of 16, Majoe began to rap with his companion the German rapper Jasko. Together they rapped as the duo Majoe & Jasko. The two boys released one
extended play
An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ...
titled ''Übernahme EP''. The mixtape attracted so much attention that the German rapper
Farid Bang
Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui (born 4 June 1986), better known as Farid Bang, is a German gangsta rapper and bodybuilder of Spanish- Moroccan descent. He’s from a part of Spain that’s on the North African coast, bordering Morocco. His pare ...
took them under contract. Majoe obtained extended fame when he recorded freetracks with German rapper
Kollegah
Felix Martin Andreas Matthias Blume (born 3 August 1984), known professionally as Kollegah, is a German rapper. He releases his music via his own label, Alpha Music Empire.
Born in Friedberg, Hesse, Friedberg and raised by a single mother in Si ...
.
On 5 September Majoe released his first solo album ''
Breiter als der Türsteher'' (B.A.D.T.) that includes 22 tracks on the premium edition.
Discography
Albums
Collaboration albums
Singles
With Jasko
Albums
* 2012: ''Mobbing Musik''
* 2013: ''Majoe vs. Jasko''
EP
* 2011: ''Übernahme EP'' (Fatbeatz)
* 2012: ''Übernahme EP'' (Banger Musik Edition)
References
External links
Banger Musik website(in German)
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1989 births
Living people
People from Duisburg
German male rappers
German people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent