# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erick-manana
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:41:04.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erick-manana"
name: "Erick Manana"
slug: "erick-manana"
description: "Erick Manana is an acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter from Madagascar. He often performs in a duo or as a solo artist, singing in accompaniment to his acoustic guitar in the ba-gasy genre that gained prominence in the central highlands of Madagascar in the 1930s. He began to learn to play guitar and sing in the ba-gasy style from his grandfather at the age of five. In 1979, he left Madagascar to settle in France and currently lives in Bordeaux. His professional career as a musician began in 1982 as a member of Lolo sy ny Tariny. He recorded his first solo album in 1996. He was a member of the group Feo-Gasy alongside the celebrated sodina player Rakoto Frah, and together the group toured Europe several times, promoting the traditional music of the central highlands of Madagascar. He has worked on a variety of collaborative projects, recording singles and performing with established artists such as Regis Gizavo and Solorazaf, and young breakthrough stars including Aina Quash. Most recently, Manana formed a group with valiha player Justin Vali and other prominent Malagasy artists in the Malagasy All Stars. The album was conceived as a way to unite the many different groups of Madagascar, and the collaboration acts as \"an olive branch to its countryfolk who sometimes are divided by these differences rather than celebrating them.\""
tagline: "Malagasy singer and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erick_Manana.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.34
  momentum:             1.016949152542373
  historical:           6.608748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/erickmananaPAGEOFFICIELLE"
    handle:    "erickmananaPAGEOFFICIELLE"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8348687/"
    handle:    "nm8348687"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/04MpKWefc7SCyJxBGsd8fh"
    handle:    "Erick Manana"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "اريك مانانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Manana"
    title: "Erick Manana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Manana"
    title: "Erick Manana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Manana"
    title: "Erick Manana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Manana"
    title: "Erick Manana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/32a919b2-6d8c-4160-a950-83c97e4678ab"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16731901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1916819"
    title: "Erick Manana"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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