Malik Mezzadri was born on January 29, 1969 in Abidjan, but grew up in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, where he began playing flute at the age of 6. At 13 he took lessons with Marc Rovelas who introduced him to Bach, Xenakis, Ravel and Stockhausen.

At 17, he left Guadeloupe for Marseille and graduated from the Marseille Conservatory with a first prize in flute. He discovered jazz at the same time. As soon as he left the conservatory, he had the opportunity to play in the reggae group Human Spirit in which he remained for 10 years. Malik then multiplies collaborations as a flutist-arranger with Lio, Teri Moïse, Laurent Garnier, Saint Germain, Juan Rozoff, DJ Gilb'R, and FFF.

In 1992 he founded his first Magic Malik Orchestra which recorded the same year his first model which appeared in 1997 under the title "HWI Project" featuring 13 musicians. He then meets Julien Lourau who tours with his own group: the Groove Gang appearing in the "City Boom Boom" album (1998), and touring for several months between South America and Africa.

In 2000, he decided to embark on an album project under his name and reform the Magic Malik Orchestra. He then recorded the album "69 96" at Label Bleu. In 2003 Malik released a double album entitled "00-237 XP-1." The first disc presents a sample of his repertoire in line with the previous album but more jazz and more complex. The second volume, XP-1, Malik reveals his first attempts to construct a personal language, hidden behind the code name XP.

Steve Coleman, interested in Malik's musical approach, invited him to appear in the album "On the Rising of the 64 Paths."

In 2004, he released another album with the Magic Malik Orchestra "13 XP Song's Book," thirteen famous songs or not seen through the musical prism of Malik.

Malik records and writes with many musicians from the new generation: -M-, Bumcello, Camille, Pierrick Pédron, Aka Moon, Booster. More recently he has also collaborated with Hocus Pocus, Air, Oumou Sangaré.

In 2007, he composed the music for the Franco-Haitian film 'Mange, This is My Body.' In 2008, he released a new album called "Saoule." And in 2010 he recorded for the first time in quartet, the album "Short Cuts" (Bee Jazz.)

In May 2010, he obtained with the musician and composer Gilbert Nouno and the singer Claire Diterzi a one-year residency at the Villa Medici in Rome. In March 2014, he performed at the opening of the Chorus des Hauts-de-Seine festival in a duo with DJ Oil. In 2017, following a meeting with trumpeter Olivier Laisney and saxophonist Pascal Mabit, he founded the Fanfare XP; a gathering of about fifteen musicians around a musical composition charter allowing to explore the compositions and improvisation developments by Malik during his career: taléas-colors (shifts between rhythmic and melodic phrases), tonal signatures (harmonic world developed by Malik), modes of Messiaen... Fanfare XP's debut album was released on February 16, 2018. Later on, helped by Vincent Bessières crowdfunding venture label Jazz & People, Malik released "Magic Malik Jazz Association" (2019), with his regular quintet featuring trumpeter Olivier Laisney, pianist Maxime Sanchez, Damien Varaillon on bass and Stefano Lucchini on drums.

The originality of Magic Malik, besides an unusual technique, is his exuberant playing and the use of numerous cries and chants in his flute, called growl. As such, he can be considered an indirect heir to Roland Kirk.

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