# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/afrika-bambaataa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:37.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/afrika-bambaataa"
name: "Afrika Bambaataa"
slug: "afrika-bambaataa"
description: "Lance Taylor, known professionally as Afrika Bambaataa, was an American disc jockey, rapper and record producer. He was notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip-hop culture. Bambaataa was one of the originators of breakbeat DJing."
tagline: "American DJ, record producer, and rapper (1957–2026)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-04-17"
deathDate: "2026-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 47400
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump