Gaël Faye is a Rwandan-French singer, rapper, and writer.
He was born in Bujumbura, Burundi of a French father and Rwandan mother. He emigrated in France at the age of 13 escaping from the Burundian civil war.
He wrote a book about it, Small Country, a semi-biographical book. It was first published in France in August 2016 by Grasset, and has since been translated into 36 languages.