Malca, whose real name is Lionel Malca, was born in Paris in 1989 to parents
from Casablanca. At the age of 4, he returned to live in the White City, where
he developed a passion for music. As a shy teenager, he founded the rock group
Twenty Dumbos and was performing on stage by the age of 17. After graduating
from high school, he moved to Paris, where he studied journalism and then music,
performing at the Olympia at the age of 22. With his childhood friend Mohamed
Sqalli, he created a musical universe inspired by their identity as "nerds from
Casablanca with a wheat heart". In ...