# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kangnam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:59:00.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kangnam"
name: "Kangnam"
slug: "kangnam"
description: "Yasuo Namekawa , better known by his stage name Kangnam, is a South Korean-Japanese singer, YouTuber, and television personality who was the vocalist and oldest member of the South Korean hip-hop group M.I.B. He made his first recording in South Korea with the single \"Say My Name\" just before becoming a member of M.I.B."
tagline: "South Korean-Japanese singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kangnam_(Namekawa_Yasuo).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1987-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.29
  momentum:             15.61302268240699
  historical:           12.427876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Kangnam11"
    handle:    "Kangnam11"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kangkangnam/"
    handle:    "kangkangnam"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/yasu.namename"
    handle:    "yasu.namename"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8830502/"
    handle:    "nm8830502"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4943531"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "كانجنام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnam_(singer)"
    title: "Kangnam (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnam"
    title: "Kangnam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnam"
    title: "Kangnam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnam_(penyanyi)"
    title: "Kangnam (penyanyi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/KangNam"
    title: "KangNam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%95%EB%82%A8_(%EA%B0%80%EC%88%98)"
    title: "강남 (가수)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangnam_(%C5%9Fark%C4%B1c%C4%B1)"
    title: "Kangnam (şarkıcı)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BA)"
    title: "Каннам (співак)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BB%91%E5%B7%9D%E5%BA%B7%E7%94%B7"
    title: "滑川康男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%B7%E7%94%B7"
    title: "康男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/afdb00b8-a7b2-4041-a479-e205d90c8e20"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3571994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1628180"
    title: "Kangnam"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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