Marracash – Assago – 7 aprile 2021
Fabio Bartolo Rizzo, better known by his stage name Marracash (IPA: [marraˈkɛʃ]), is an Italian rapper.
Fabio Rizzo Bartolo was born in Nicosia, Sicily from a mother who worked as a custodian and 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 electronical 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), as a pun on the name of Marrakech. In a TV interview with All Music on July 7, 2008, he claimed to have regularly listened to Metallica and 883 as a child.