Stromae
Rapper
Noted hip-hop and electronic musician who gained fame with Alors on danse, the No. 1 European hit from 2009. In 2014 he won an Artiste masculin Francophone Award at the NRJ Music Awards.
He was among the 10 winners of the 2011 European Border Breakers Award, and his first album, Cheese, dropped in February 2011, for which he received the Best Dance Album award at the Victoires de la Musique.
He used Facebook and Twitter to announce the release of his second studio album, Racine Carrée, in August of 2013.
He married Coralie Barbier in 2015. He previously dated former Miss Belgium Tatiana Silva from 2011 to 2012. His father was killed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
He and Kanye West worked on a remix of Alors on danse in 2010; his original single gained recognition from Anna Wintour, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Nicolas Sarkozy.