# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-darko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:35.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-darko"
name: "George Darko"
slug: "george-darko"
description: "George Darko was a Ghanaian burger-highlife musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer and songwriter, who was on the music scene from the late 1960s. A native of Akropong, Ghana, Darko was popular in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and his songs are some of the most timeless and enduring highlife tracks in Ghana's music circles. Some of his contemporaries include Ben Brako, C.K. Mann, Daddy Lumba, Ernest Nana Acheampong, Nana Kwame Ampadu and Pat Thomas, among others. He was widely considered to be one of the pioneers of burger-highlife with his first hit \"Ako Te Brofo\" which was released in 1983. The song remains popular among Ghanaians both at home and abroad, and is still played at funerals and parties."
tagline: "Ghanaian highlife musician (1951–2024)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-01-12"
deathDate: "2024-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.55
  momentum:             0.5940594059405939
  historical:           6.414436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6159169/"
    handle:    "nm6159169"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1851195"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "جورج داركو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Darko"
    title: "George Darko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Darko"
    title: "George Darko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Darko"
    title: "George Darko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Darko"
    title: "George Darko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Darko"
    title: "George Darko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d9562cdf-d3b8-4379-9124-916a665760ca"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5538379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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