# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gyedu-blay-ambolley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:44.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gyedu-blay-ambolley"
name: "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley"
slug: "gyedu-blay-ambolley"
description: "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. The first musician from Ghana and the world to formally incorporate rap forms into local highlife rhythms, Ambolley created the musical genre Simigwa."
tagline: "Ghanaian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gyedu-Blay-Ambolley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.774301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1130
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Ambolley"
    handle:    "Ambolley"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zalckzSTXqNsgmp5yyuNg"
    handle:    "@gyedu-blayambolley3949"
    followers: 1130
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/98710"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جيدو بلاى امبولى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyedu-Blay_Ambolley"
    title: "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyedu-Blay_Ambolley"
    title: "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyedu-Blay_Ambolley"
    title: "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyedu-Blay_Ambolley"
    title: "Gyedu-Blay Ambolley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ad93763f-9bab-4a3f-a476-22fc9504bef3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25513862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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