Grew up living in Congo RDC, and moved to Belgium in 1997.
For playing his character in the film "Welcome to Germany" he learned to speak German in 6weeks.
Holds Belgian citizenship.
The documentary "What about Eric?" won the prizes for "Best Belgian Documentary" at the international documentary film festival 'Docvile'2014 and for "Best Flemish Documentary" at film festival of Ostend (FFO2014).