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In 1995, Hussein Akkouche was born on a cold, snowy winter night as the fourth of six children in a family with Lebanese roots. Growing up in the grey streets of Berlin-Lichterfelde, he had to assert himself among older people at an early age and at the age of 13 made a decision that changed his life forever: he started rapping.


Today, all of Germany knows Hussein under the name Samra. In his autobiography, he reviews successes and setbacks, looks back at his family's past marked by war and poverty, and deals with brutal honesty about how the dark side of the music business almost drove him to suicide.


It is the moving story of a boy from the heart of the block who had to stand on his own two feet at an early age. And who learned at a young age to defy all the adversities that life had in store for him.


Hussein Akkouche aka Samra is one of the most successful German musicians of our time. Born in 1995 in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde, he made a name for himself early on in Berlin's rap scene and made his breakthrough in 2018 with the single "Cataleya". His debut album spent 22 weeks at number 1 in the German charts, ten number 1 singles and numerous gold records cemented his success.

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