Stromae

Stromae poster on a wall in Austin, Texas.

This musician has a half-billion video views. So who the hell is he?

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He’s sold millions of albums in Europe and is an internet star. Kanye West and Lorde have collaborated with him, and President Obama has one of his CDs. He’s Belgian hip hop artist Stromae, whose Rwandan father was killed in that nation’s genocide and is now trying to make it in the US.

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