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Théodore Desprez, also known as ‘Speranza or Lord Esperanza, is a french rapper. He was born on September 30th, 1996 in Paris.

Biography
He grew up in Paris, and more precisely in the 18th and 19th districts. From an early age, his parents quicly introduced him to music by teaching him piano. He soon became interested in artists such as France Gall or Alain Souchon.

Furthermore, to music was added another passion : literature. At the age of eleven, Théodore was already writing his first poems and short stories.

Then followed adolescence, where he discovered rap. Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Nekfeu, MC Solaar… Many icons inspired him.

Career
In 2010, he finally posted his first rap songs on Youtube and in 2014, he signed with Modulor’s label before releasing his first project entitled “hors de portée” the following year. At first, he used the pseudonym 'Speranza. Actually, it was a reference to the name of the island on which washed up the hero of Michel Fournier’s novel “Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique”.

Quickly, he changed his stage name into Lord Esperanza. Over the years, he also aquired several nicknames such as “le prince de la trap” (the prince of trap music) or “l'enfant du siècle” (the child of the century). The latter is also a literary reference but this time to Alfred Musset’s book “Confession of a child of the century”.

His career really takes off in 2017 : with his beatmaker Majeur Mineur, he released his first EP “Drapeau noir”.

This same year, he also released another EP untitled “Polaroïd”. With this EP, he starts the Polaroidtour in a few French cities : Clermont Ferrand, Paris, Lyon, Marseille… But also in Sweden.

A year after, in 2018, Lord released a new mixtape “#LordEsperanzadanstaville”. In his project, he points out nine different cities in which he shot every music video in each cities : Toulouse, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Rouen, Grenoble, Le Havre, Lille, Bordeaux and Paris.

A few month later, he released a new EP untilted “Internet”.

Following all these projects, he finally relased his first album on march, 8th, 2019. The album’s name is “Drapeau Blanc”, in reference to the name of one of his most famous song “Drapeau Noir”.

Other
In addition, he shot a music video at COLORS studio for his song "Le temps des Graviers” on December, 5th, 2018. And in 2019, he also opened up a pop-up store on May, 18th in Paris. The first hundred buyers were able to earn a ticket for a very private showcase in the evening.

He is very close to his fans and he usually takes time to meet them at the end of his concerts.