Jacques-Anthony, sometimes known by the stage name DXN BNLVDN, is a Russian rapper and songwriter from St. Petersburg.

Jacques was born on 21 January 1993, in Vologda, Russia to Simon Makanda and Andrew Menshikov.[1] Jacques’s mother was the lead singer of a popular hip-hop group known as the D.O.B. Community and the first female rapper in Russia, and his father was a famous rapper known as Legalize and the founder of the DOB Community.[3] Andrew married Simon four years after Jacques’s birth, and the three then moved to the Congo where they lived for a few years before returning to Russia at the outbreak of the Congo Civil War.[1] Jacques then lived with his father in Medvedkovo until his mother reunited with him at the age of 11. Initially, Jacques attended Kazarnovskii, which is a school in Moscow.[1] It was during this time that Jacques began learning to play the piano and guitar. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.