# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-oryema
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:28.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-oryema"
name: "Geoffrey Oryema"
slug: "geoffrey-oryema"
description: "Geoffrey Oryema was a Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister in the government of Idi Amin, he began his life in exile. At the age of 24, and at the height of Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled out of the country in the trunk of a car."
tagline: "Ugandan musician and singer (1953-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oryema_KonzertMainz_130301.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-04-16"
deathDate: "2018-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.72941466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/GeoffreyOryema"
    handle:    "GeoffreyOryema"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/GeoffreyOryema"
    handle:    "GeoffreyOryema"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0651444"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "4JzBPiRKBOG8U0jef4M60l"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://geoffrey-oryema.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جيوفرى اوريما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Τζόφρι Οργιέμα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
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    title: "Ориема, Джеффри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Oryema"
    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیوفری اورییما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Geoffrey Oryema"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump