Dee Nasty

Dee Nasty is a French hip-hop disc jockey, musician and producer. He is recognized as one of the major pioneers of hip-hop in France.

His real name is Daniel Bigeault, he comes from the town of Pierre-Plate, in Bagneux, in Hauts-de-Seine, in the southern suburbs of Paris. In 1978, during a stay in San Francisco, in the United States, Dee Nasty discovered the beginnings of hip-hop, with graffiti, breakdancing and funk chants like that of Sugarhill Gang. He is one of the first to have imported this style to France. He became known in 1982 for having worked on the pirate radio Ark En Ciel with the show Funkabilly, on Radio FG, Radio Carbone 14 and Radio Diffusion Handicapé. In 1984, Dee Nasty released her first album Paname City Rappin', on the Funkzilla Records and Cabana Music labels. Pressed in 1,000 copies, the album is the first of the self-produced hip-hop genre in France. While he was selling it in the street during the Fête de la Musique, he met the rapper Lionel D.

Dee Nasty abandoned MCing in 1984 after his first album, he then devoted himself exclusively to DJing. He is one of the very first French DJs to master the art of scratching. In 1986, he organized "free jams" in the vacant lot of La Chapelle, inserting handmade flyers into the covers of US funk and hip-hop records. Member of the Universal Zulu Nation, he opened for Afrika Bambaataa's French tour. Winner of the French DMC DJ championship in 1986, 1987 and 1988, he hosted the first hip-hop evenings in Paris such as those of "Chez Roger Boite Funk" at Globo organized by Actuel magazine and Radio Nova. He was on the airwaves of Radio Nova from 1988 to 1989, he hosted Deenastyle, accompanied by the rapper Lionel D: these were the live debuts of NTM, MC Solaar, Assassin, Ministère A.M.E.R and many others who performed there. shoot their debut on tape. Before the end of the 1980s, artists called on his gifts as a mixer, arranger and scratcher such as Cheb Khaled, Rita Mitsouko, Beastie Boys, Arthur H, and Rufus Thomas.