# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/e-t-mensah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:08:24.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/e-t-mensah"
name: "E. T. Mensah"
slug: "e-t-mensah"
description: "Emmanuel Tettey Mensah was a Ghanaian musician who was regarded as the \"King of Highlife\" music. He led The Tempos, a band that toured widely in West Africa."
tagline: "Ghanaian musicians (1919–1996)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-05-31"
deathDate: "1996-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.63
  momentum:             8.877163360067538
  historical:           7.955797333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/569594"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._Mensah"
    title: "E. T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._Mensah"
    title: "E. T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._Mensah"
    title: "E. T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._Mensah"
    title: "E. T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T._Mensah"
    title: "E. T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._Mensah"
    title: "E.T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._Mensah"
    title: "E.T. Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._T_Mensah"
    title: "E. T Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/23c8fdc8-e593-48df-87f4-df448a85ba43"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1811495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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