Youssoupha Mabiki, better known by his mononym Youssoupha (French pronunciation: ​[jusuˈfa]; born in Kinshasa on 29 August 1980) is a French rapper of Congolese origin.He was born to a Congolese father and a Senegalese mother. His father was a musician and Congo-Kinshasa political figure Tabu Ley Rochereau. After passing his childhood in Congo-Kinshasa, at the age of 10, he moved to France to live with relatives in Beziers, then Osny, Cergy and Sartrouville.