Passi is a French hip hop artist who became famous in the mid-1990s with th… Read Full Bio ↴Passi is a French hip hop artist who became famous in the mid-1990s with the group Ministère A.M.E.R, which included himself and Stomy Bugsy. He is most widely known, however, as a solo artist, as well as a participant in many other groups, such as Bisso Na Bisso and Dis l'heure 2 zouk.

Passi was born on 21 December 1972, in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. In 1979, his family moved to Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris. He graduated from lycée and created the band Ministère AMER with Stomy Bugsy, who he had gone to school with.

Passi's first solo album, Les tentations, was released in 1997, and it sold 450,000 copies. Passi's third album, Odyssée, was released in 2004.