# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-birra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:07:24.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-birra"
name: "Ali Birra"
slug: "ali-birra"
description: "Ali Mohammed Musa, known professionally as Ali Birra, was an Ethiopian singer. He was regarded as the most popular Oromo icon, as well as an influential artist in the other regions and urban areas of Ethiopia. He had played a lot of songs in Amharic, Afar, Arabic and Somali languages. Ali was a celebrated as a poet and multi-instrumentalist."
tagline: "Ethiopian singer and composer (1950–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Ali-Birra.jpg/330px-Ali-Birra.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-09-29"
deathDate: "2022-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.753097333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/918287"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%8A_%E1%89%A2%E1%88%AB"
    title: "አሊ ቢራ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A9"
    title: "علي برة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%87"
    title: "على بره"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Birra"
    title: "Ali Birra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Birra"
    title: "Ali Birra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alii_Birraa"
    title: "Alii Birraa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Birra"
    title: "Ali Birra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%81"
    title: "علی برہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/19d99b5c-3231-4f6c-b03e-68e390b62e97"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143095"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump