Gaël Faye
Acting
Biography
Gaël Faye (born 6 August 1982) is a Rwandan-French 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 teenage-years' 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 an…
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Quotidien
2016 · TV
Victoires de la musique
1985 · TV
Clique
2013 · TV
Small Country: An African Childhood
2020 · Movie
Savages
2024 · Movie
Le meilleur des Francofolies
2026 · Movie
Ephémère, le doc'
2023 · Movie
Gaël Faye, live at the Musée du Louvre
2025 · Movie
Étincelle: the Curse of the Black Opal
2023 · Movie
Father's Day
2022 · Movie
Rwanda : the silence of words
2022 · Movie
Jacaranda
— · Movie