# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caiphus-semenya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:51.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caiphus-semenya"
name: "Caiphus Semenya"
slug: "caiphus-semenya"
description: "Caiphus Semenya is a South African composer and musician. As a young musician he sang in the cast of the jazz musical King Kong. After moving to the United States in the 1960s he had a successful career as a composer and arranger, including work on the scores for Roots (1977) and The Color Purple (1985)."
tagline: "South African musician and composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.772393333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  77
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4920
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783783/"
    handle:    "nm0783783"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkiKau8O8zPr2bJIrIHSieg"
    handle:    "Letta Mbulu - Topic"
    followers: 4920
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/298574"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "كايفوس سيمينيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiphus_Semenya"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiphus_Semenya"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiphus_Semenya"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiphus_Semenya"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiphus_Semenya"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiphus_Semenya"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4f558a49-afb0-4b71-b8fa-68e5e7ad363c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1025900"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4546648"
    title: "Caiphus Semenya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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