Positive for Covid-19, Akhenaton, figure of French rap and founder of the IAM group, was placed in intensive care. Treatment for respiratory distress.
Akhenaton was reportedly admitted to intensive care after contracting the coronavirus. The information, revealed by BFM Marseille Provence, shakes up the music world and rap fans. The artist, co-founder of the IAM group, was reportedly taken care of for respiratory distress on Sunday August 1, 2021 at the Timone hospital in Marseille. Also according to BFM, the rapper would be out of intensive care on Monday, August 2, 2021. The artist’s family has confirmed his hospitalization, but for the moment refuses to comment.
Akhenaton and IAM opposed to health pass and compulsory vaccination
July 17, 2021, on Twitter, Akhenaton had affirmed to be opposed to the sanitary pass but also to the compulsory vaccination. “With the IAM group, we are against compulsory vaccination with or without wear and tear, in the case of caregivers and other professions.” According to him, “it is about our freedoms”, the singer said in a video shared on the band’s official page. In 2020, in full promotion of his album Asteroid, he confided to Europe 1 “doubt the real dangerousness of this virus.” “I had poor studies, but at the beginning, I did scientific studies, so these are things that interest me enormously. But I have neither the knowledge nor the knowledge of the doctors. doctors who are on television and who have been giving lessons for months to very great geneticists and infectious diseases, that worries me “, He explained, referring to Doctor Didier Raoult, a Marseille infectious disease specialist who has divided strongly since the start of the pandemic.
Following Akhenaton’s hospitalization, reactions on social networks were immediate. Many are those who returned to the singer’s position on vaccination and the health pass. However, the artist from Marseille has also received the support of many fans.
The IAM group was forced, on July 21, to cancel one of his performances after a contact case had been identified among the rappers, without knowing precisely who was concerned. The group AIM was also to perform in Saint-Raphaël, in the Var, Monday August 2, then at the Musicalarue festival, in Luxey, in the Landes, on Tuesday August 3, 2021.