# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ilham-al-madfai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:17:16.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ilham-al-madfai"
name: "Ilham al-Madfai"
slug: "ilham-al-madfai"
description: "Ilham al-Madfai is an Iraqi guitarist, singer and composer. al-Madfai's synthesis of Western guitar stylings with traditional Iraqi music has made him a popular performer in his native country and throughout the Middle East. Beginning in 1999, al-Madfai released a string of albums on EMI's label, including his platinum eponymous debut, Ilham al-Madfai (1999), Live at the Hard Rock Cafe (2001), Baghdad (2003) and The Voice of Iraq: The Best of Ilham al-Madfai (2005). In 2009, Al-Madfai released Dishdasha. His Western-inspired compositions led to a nickname; \"The Baghdad Beatle\"."
tagline: "Iraqi musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ilham_Al_Madfai_in_2005.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.03
  momentum:             1.596638655462185
  historical:           8.859616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إلهام المدفعي"
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    title: "الهام المدفعی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_al-Madfai"
    title: "Ilham al-Madfai"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%B9%DB%8C"
    title: "الهام المدفعی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_Al_Madfai"
    title: "Ilham Al Madfai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilham_al-Madfai"
    title: "Ilham al-Madfai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump