Freeman

Freeman (real name Malek Brahimi, also known as Abdelmalek Sultan) is a French hip hop artist and breakdancer. He is a member of the successful hip hop group IAM together with

Freeman (real name Malek Brahimi, also known as Abdelmalek Sultan) is a French hip hop artist and breakdancer. He is a member of the successful hip hop group IAM together with Akhenaton, Shurik'n, Khéops, Imhotep, and Kephren. He has also worked as a solo artist and an actor. Freeman was born in Marseille, but says that he is above all an Algerian.

Brahimi was born in Marseille on 9 May 1972, and has lived most of his life in the district of Belsunce, in Marseille. At first, when IAM was formed in 1988, Brahimi worked with them as a breakdancer under the alias Abdelmalek Sultan, but he soon started rapping and appearing on the group's albums. In 1999, he published his first solo album, L'palais de justice.