Filip Szcześniak is reluctant to give interviews, so far he has never talked to journalists in front of the camera. He was born in Cairo but spent his childhood in China. When he was three, he moved to Guangzhou with his parents and older sister. – I went to kindergarten there, first American, then Chinese, which was difficult because I didn’t know the language at all, I couldn’t find myself there. China can be overwhelming for a child in general – he told in 2015 in an interview with .
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Born in Cairo, he spent his first childhood years in China. First he wrote in English
In 1996, as a 6-year-old, he returned to Warsaw. He started writing his first texts during his studies, although he was interested in it much earlier. He recorded his first songs in English, years later he admitted that it was not the right way. – Do you want someone to listen to your lines and be able to relate to them? Write in your local language. I had to grow up to this awareness – he admitted in an interview with
He initially recorded as Foodvillain. Finally, in 2013, he adopted a pseudonym. There is no secret story behind him or a tribute to Ernest Hemingway, because that was his nickname in the FIFA game. In 2014, the second mini-album, “Warsaw Triangle”, was released to the public for free online. The first went unnoticed. The day after the premiere of “Warsaw Triangle”, he played his first concert. As he joked, most of the audience were his friends. The song “6 Zeros” gave him popularity and success on June 6, 2015. Contract for a Work, the third mini-album, was made available again for free.
He won three Fryderyks, he did not receive any award personally. “Fifi is not a celebrity”
Taco Hemingway’s first studio album, Marble, was released in November 2016 and quickly went platinum. Concerts, growing popularity, subsequent albums and cooperation with Quebonafide only cemented his position in the industry. He was the first Polish artist to reach one billion plays on the Spotify platform. Between 2016 and 2020, he received a total of thirteen Fryderyk nominations and five statuettes, three times in a row he won the award for hip-hop album of the year. And he never received the award in person. Why? He rapped about the reasons in the song “515” already in 2016:
Text from mom, wait, I need to read it. Congratulations drowned in a few exclamation marks. He asks why I don’t run around Fryderyki in a suit. I will tell everyone today, Fifi is not a celebrity.
Source: Gazeta
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