Nirere Shanel

Ruth Nirere aka Nirere Shanel is a Rwandan female singer, songwriter and actress. She released her first two songs in 1998 about the commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide when she was only 13years old. The song is about healing broken hearts and paying respect to the victims. Shanel has been singing since then and she released her debut album in 2009. She has starred in two films, Le Jour Où Dieu est Parti en Voyage (The Day God Walked Away) produced jointly by the European studios Artemis and Mugho Productions in 2008 and Long Coat by Edward Bamporiki in 2009. The Long Coat script won an award in Focus Feature/Africa First Festival in New York.