Marracash, is an Italian rapper born in Sicily
Fabio Rizzo Bartolo was born in Nicosia, Sicily to a mother who worked as a custodian and a father who worked as a truck driver. He has a younger brother. His family then moved to Milan in a house in Bramante, when he was ten, he was expelled from his home with his family, who moved to the suburbs of Barona, where he grew up and still lives.
After graduating as an electrical technician, Rizzo recorded his first verses under the pseudonym Yuza Delle Nuvole, appearing in Prodigio’s 1999 demo “The Royal Rumble”, alongside Il Guercio, Fame, Aken and Corvo D’Argento. He adopted the stage name Marracash after his childhood nickname, Marocchino (Italian for ‘”Moroccan”‘ jokingly because of his Sicilian origins), and that’s how the name Marrakesh was born
Fabio Bartolo Rizzo, better known by his stage name Marracash, is an Italian rapper. Starting his career in the rap group Dogo Gang, he debuted as a solo artist rising in fame in the 2010s releasing six studio albums that reached the top ten of the Italian Albums Chart, including two top positions with Santeria (2016) and Persona (2019). The rapper has also released numerous successful singles and collaborations scoring seventeen times in the top ten of the Italian Singles Chart. Thanks to his work he has sold over 5 million copies in Italy, becoming one of the top-selling Italian rappers in the 2010s.
In the course of his musical projects, he has sung and written songs with numerous artists including rap artists like Gué Pequeno, J-Ax, Fabri Fibra, Emis Killa, Club Dogo, Baby K, and pop influences artist as Tiziano Ferro, Giusy Ferreri, Elisa, Federica Abbate and Elodie.
In 2013, together with producer Shablo, he founded the independent record label Roccia Music, which involves established figures and newcomers to rap, producers and DJs. From 2012 to 2014 he hosted MTV Italy’s freestyle music TV program MTV Spit. and the rest is history as they say