Despite witnessing the massacre of his family when he was 17-years-old,
Cornelius Nyungura escaped the Rwanda genocide to build a globally successful
pop career and later record for the legendary Motown Records. Born in Germany,
Nyungura moved with his family to their homeland of Rwanda when he was a child
where he grew up listening to American R&B groups, his parents' record
collection of French pop crooners and local traditional African music. To fit in
at school he changed his name to the more colloquial Corneille and, with
friends, he set up a teenage vocal group who sought t...