Faouze Barkati is a French

music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

and

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

working with Yanis Records France and credited for popularizing the

kuduro Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance from Angola. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro was developed in Luanda, Angola in the late 1980s. Producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk bé ...

music and dance in Europe worldwide. Through his friendship since childhood with Lucenzo, he took an Angolan dance form he had been introduced to 25 years earlier through his travels, and convinced Lucenzo and his second producer Fabrice Toïgo to launch the genre by adapting kuduro with catchy fusion of Portuguese and European elements. Faouze Barkati went on to produce many songs for Lucenzo most notably "

Vem Dançar Kuduro "Vem Dançar Kuduro" (, en, Come Dance Kuduro) is a multilingual Portuguese/English dance hit single by Lucenzo, a France-based artist of Portuguese origin featuring France-based American artist Big Ali. Lucenzo sings in Portuguese and Big Ali in ...

" a big dance hit in France and the basis of the international hit " Danza Kuduro" by Don Omar & Lucenzo, where he was also credited. The new Don Omar version was also featured in the film '' Fast Five''. For almost a decade, Faouze Barkati has worked with other artists including credits as executive producer for 2001 hit "Only Thing I Need" by

DJ Abdel Abdel-illa Lamriq, better known as DJ Abdel, is a French DJ and record producer playing hip hop, funk and contemporary R&B on major radio stations in France. DJ Abdel became known through his musical participation in the French Canal+ televi ...

feat. Jérome Prister and

Doudou Masta Mamadou Doumbia (born February 26, 1971, in Vitry-sur-Seine) is a French hip-hop artist and actor. Biography The young Doudou showed an early musical aptitude from the age of six, when he successfully joined France's national youth choir, which ...

."Only Things I Need" page on SwissCharts.com
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