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Joci Pápai, born Pápai József on September 22, 1981, is a Hungarian singer, composer, rapper, and musician. He is a member of the Romani people and was born in Tata. Pápai performs in Hungarian and plays the guitar and voice. His work period began in 2005, and he is associated with the genre of rapping.
He participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 and 2019. Pápai is also known by the pseudonym Pápai Joci.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1981
Discography
- Vigaszdíj2005
- Ne ébressz fel!2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,441
- Total plays
- 10,986
Tags
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Key facts
- Born
- József Pápai , ( 1981-09-22 ) 22 September 1981 (age 44) , Tata , Hungary
- Genres
- Romani music traditional folk hip hop pop rock soul R&B
- Occupations
- Singer actor rapper guitarist
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Years active
- 2005–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- József
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Tata
- Occupation
- rapper
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 2017
- Genre
- rapping
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- A Dal 2017 Pápai Joci cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Joci Pápai
- date of birth
- 1981-09-22
- name in native language
- Pápai Joci
- birth name
- Pápai József
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- pseudonym
- Pápai Joci
- social media followers
- 155000
- ethnic group
- Romani people
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Encyclopedic overview
József "Joci" Pápai ( Hungarian: [ˈjot͡si ˈpaːpɒi]; born 22 September 1981) is a Hungarian singer, rapper and guitarist of Romani descent. He represented Hungary at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Origo" finishing in 8th place. He represented Hungary again at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Az én apám". However he failed to qualify for the grand final being the first Hungarian entry not to since returning in 2011.
Career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joci Pápai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.