# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/banky-w
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:04:12.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/banky-w"
name: "Banky W."
slug: "banky-w"
description: "Olubankole Wellington, popularly known by his stage name Banky W. and credited in film as Banky Wellington, is a Nigerian-American singer, rapper, actor, entrepreneur and politician."
tagline: "Nigerian singer, rapper, and actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Folorunsho_Coker_2_(cropped)_Bany_W.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1981-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.7
  momentum:             0.7336956521739129
  historical:           13.12063066666667
  currentAttention:     4.076086956521738
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/bankyw"
    handle:    "bankyw"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/bankywellington/"
    handle:    "bankywellington"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5442796/"
    handle:    "nm5442796"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1c61yiH4iYE7cHtjAYSUu3"
    handle:    "1c61yiH4iYE7cHtjAYSUu3"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bankywonline.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1340117"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بانكول ويلينجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%95%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%88."
    title: "بانکی دەبلیوو."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W"
    title: "Banky W"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W"
    title: "Banky W"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://knc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nup.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W."
    title: "Banky W."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olubankole_Wellington"
    title: "Olubankole Wellington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DA%88%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "بانکی ڈبلیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banky_W"
    title: "Banky W"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Banky_W"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Banky_W"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cfe33e99-25ac-47cf-90b0-c60c37eb7487"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4856820"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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