Both of her parents were enthusiastic singers and she would sing pop songs that she had heard sung by Johnny Hallyday, Stevie Wonder and France Gall.

[1] Kayirebwa was invited to sing for her Queen, but in 1973 war broke out in her country and she left with her mother to live in Belgium.

She and her husband had four children and she studied her cultural heritage at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren.

Her first solo album was titled "Music from Rwanda" and it included songs by Jean-Christophe Matata [fr].

[3] She and Christine Coppel formed a charity called "Hope, the Children of a Thousand Hills" which is concerned with her homeland.