We all know him by this name, but most of us do not know his real name: Emile Joël Sofonnou. DJ Mix Premier is both a singer and songwriter of Coupé-décalé. This ambitious young man of Ivorian-Beninese origin was born on 19 September 1985 in Cotonou, of an Ivorian mother and a Beninese father. He spent the first part of his childhood in the commune of Marcory in Abidjan with a modest family