# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/le-grand-kalle
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:25:41.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/le-grand-kalle"
name: "Le Grand Kallé"
slug: "le-grand-kalle"
description: "Joseph Athanase Tshamala Kabasele, popularly known as Le Grand Kallé, was a Congolese singer-songwriter, composer, record executive, and founder of African Jazz. Regarded as the \"father of modern Congolese popular music\", he shaped the evolution of urban popular music in the Belgian Congo and the post-independence Democratic Republic of the Congo."
tagline: "Congolese singer and bandleader, considered the father of modern Congolese music"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Kabasele_promotional_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-12-16"
deathDate: "1983-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.01
  momentum:             9.443678533776659
  historical:           6.442552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1635583"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Kall%C3%A9"
    title: "Le Grand Kallé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Kall%C3%A9"
    title: "Le Grand Kallé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Kall%C3%A9"
    title: "Grand Kallé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Kall%C3%A9"
    title: "Le Grand Kallé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Kall%C3%A9"
    title: "Grand Kallé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Kalle"
    title: "Grand Kalle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/95618add-be0e-4bd4-b55f-5f1a9a1511b3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3113632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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