Gioia Kayaga, known as Joy Slam, was born in 1990 in the Namur Province. With origins from Belgium, Italy and Burundi, she began writing as a teenager, but in 2012 discovered slam when she went to study in Brussels. In 2013, she won the Paroles Urbaines Award (Les Prix Paroles Urbaines) of the Wallonia - Brussels Federation. Since then, she has released a poetry collection, L'arbre sans racines d'un pays sans soleil (The rootless tree of a sunless land) in 2015, and two albums, Tram25 in 2017, and L'art de la joie (The Art of Joy) in 2019. After working as a teacher for four years, she has now devoted herself entirely to her passion: concerts and performances, creative writing and recording, conducting workshops, slam seminars and organizing open participatory concerts. Illiteracy, feminism, anti-capitalism, the fight against racism and the recognition of colonial history, the need to liberate the discourse of minorities and oppressed groups ... all of Joy's struggles can be found within her texts along with quest for her own identity. The artist, who is actively present on the scenes in Brussels, has also appeared many times in Madagascar, France, Germany, Canada, but also in Réunion and Niger. In 2020, her poetry collection Hybride and her poetry essay Ensauvagement were published by MaelstrÖm reEvolution.