Mamadou Diouma Daniel Camara (born 1974, in Toulouse, France), better known as Dadoo (), is a French rapper and also a member of rap band . He has performed several duets with singer Vitaa. Dadoo is competing in his second Lavaman Triathlon in 2015 to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Biography Beginnings with KDD He started in 1994 with the group and quickly became its leader. The group was made of five members (Dadoo otherwise known as Dadppda, Diesel, H2O, Lindsay and Robert) who signed a contract with Columbia. Their first album Opte pour le K came out in 1996; next came the album Résurrection in 1998 and Une Couleur de plus au Drapeau in 2000, both considered as original classics of French rap. Later the group separated after selling more than 200,000 albums. A new path was ahead for him. After KDD Dadoo quickly changed to a solo career. He initiated many musical projects and collaborations with: Akhenaton, Kool Shen, Rohff, Oxmo Puccino, Vitaa, Diam's, Joeystarr, even Jean-Michel Jarre for the remix of Oxygène. Dadoo, whose writing is the base of his solo career, wrote the script for , the story of two cops who are total opposites and must face the middle class of Marseilles. The movie, produced by Gilles Paquet-Brenner in 2003, and will feature Titoff, Stomy Bugsy and Noémie Lenoir. Then, he co-directed the BO of Taxi 3 for Luc Besson, who saw rising stars like Diam, Vitaa, Corneille, Korr and Scalp. In the same year, he wrote for Alain Chabat the music for the movie RRRrrrr!!!, a wacky movie filmed in 2003, with les Robins des Bois. In 2003, produced by Sony Columbia, his first solo album France History X which is regarded as a definitive, high-value example of French rap. The album showed a timeless analysis of the French wealthy's differences and contradictions. The title Sales Gosses met an immediate success with a music video with Jamel Debbouze, Éric et Ramzy, Dieudonné and Joeystarr. The titles Où vous-êtes, France History X and Fille facile also saw large successes. It was in 2014 when Dadoo launched the formation of Dadoo and the Classics who hoped to blend hip hop strictly MC + KEYS + DRUMS. Composition career Dadoo, who gained more interest in composition, completed the first album of Joeystarr Gare au Jaguarr in 2006. The album was a clear success and