# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kandia-kouyate
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:23:03.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kandia-kouyate"
name: "Kandia Kouyaté"
slug: "kandia-kouyate"
description: "Kandia Kouyaté is a Malian jelimuso and kora player; she has earned the prestigious title of ngara, and is sometimes called La dangereuse and La Grande vedette malienne. Kouyaté's dense, emotional, hypnotic manner of singing and her lyrical talents have earned huge acclaim in Mali, though she remained relatively little known outside Africa, due to extremely limited availability of her recordings. Her home town of Kita is known for love songs, which form a large part of Kouyaté's repertoire. She also sings praise songs."
tagline: "Malian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Les_Amazones_d'Afrique_-_Festival_du_Bout_du_Monde_2016_-_008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.84
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.349713333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/991797"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "كانديا كوياتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandia_Kouyat%C3%A9"
    title: "Kandia Kouyaté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c33858a2-b9ca-4a0e-9f2e-227b0de57ab9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546235"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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