# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/docteur-nico
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:06:11.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/docteur-nico"
name: "Docteur Nico"
slug: "docteur-nico"
description: "Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay, popularly known as Docteur Nico, was a Congolese guitarist and composer. One of the pioneers of Congolese music, he graduated in 1957 as a technical teacher, but inspired by his musical family, he took up the guitar and in time became a virtuoso soloist."
tagline: "Congolese guitarist and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Docteur_Nico.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-07-07"
deathDate: "1985-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.87
  momentum:             5.280749677517263
  historical:           5.755437333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1091652"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "نيكو كاساندا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Kasanda"
    title: "Nico Kasanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Kasanda"
    title: "Nico Kasanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docteur_Nico"
    title: "Docteur Nico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Kasanda"
    title: "Nico Kasanda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6d1c9e84-c1a7-47df-aef2-df8d78065827"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3033528"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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