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My Take
What I admire about M. Pokora is how a kid from Strasbourg became a genuinely global-caliber performer. Born Matthieu Tota, he sings, dances, styles himself and models with an almost greedy versatility, working mostly in French but reaching for English too, and he took the 2020 MTV Europe Music Award for Best French Act. The detail I keep returning to is his repeated stint coaching The Voice Kids France—it suggests a real eye for spotting and nurturing young talent. Stars who radiate warmth rather than aloofness are rarer than people admit, and I'm happy to applaud him as a standard-bearer for French pop.
Overview
Matthieu Tota (French pronunciation: [matjø tɔta]; born 26 September 1985), artistically known as Matt Pokora and later M. Pokora (), is a French pop singer and rapper. He is very well known for his catchy melodies and smooth vocals. Pokora mostly sings in French but he has also recorded a number of songs in English. In 2016, 2017 and 2025 he served as a coach for The Voice Kids France.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- M. Pokora
- Name (Japanese)
- M・ポコラ
- Reading
- M・ぽこら
- Born
- September 26, 1985 (age 40)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Ox
- Origin
- Strasbourg, France
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- composer / singer / dancer / personal stylist / model
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2020 MTV Europe Music Award for Best French Act
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.mpokoramusic.fr/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mattpokora/
- Xhttps://x.com/MPokora
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.