Gaël Faye

Gaël Faye born 6 August 1982 is a RwandanFrench singer rapper and writer Faye was born in Bujumbura Burundi of a French father and Rwandan mother He moved to France at the age of 13 escaping from the Burundian civil war He studied economics and finance He is married and has two daughters Faye wrote a novel inspired by his teenageyears experience of the war in Burundi Small Country Petit Pays was first published in France in August 2016 by Grasset It won five literary prizes It has been translated into 36 languages and made into a movie released in 2020 In 2010 Faye and Edgar Sekloka released a rap and hiphop album entitled Milk Coffee and Sugar also the name of their group Faye then released three solo albums and one EP Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre 2013Des fleurs EP 2014 Lundi Méchant 2020 and Mauve Jacaranda 2022 Lundi Méchant went gold in 2022 Source Article Gaël Faye from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30