# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hamsalekha
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:18:38.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hamsalekha"
name: "Hamsalekha"
slug: "hamsalekha"
description: "Gangaraju, professionally known as Hamsalekha, is an Indian film composer and songwriter who works in South Indian cinema, predominantly in the Kannada film industry since the late 1980s. He is also a screenplay writer, dialogue writer, instrumentalist and conductor, having composed and written over 500 albums."
tagline: "Indian music composer, lyricist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr.HAMSALEKHA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.21
  momentum:             18.76375952582557
  historical:           6.413912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/desihamsa"
    handle:    "desihamsa"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359096/"
    handle:    "nm0359096"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/afde00cd-d2f7-44c4-bf91-95b50d19c5e7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7"
    title: "هامساليخا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsalekha"
    title: "Hamsalekha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%96"
    title: "ಹಂಸಲೇಖ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "அம்சலேகா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%96"
    title: "హంసలేఖ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ہمسلیخا (موسیقار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5646399"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/584468"
    title: "Hamsalekha"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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