# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lounes-matoub
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:25:24.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lounes-matoub"
name: "Lounès Matoub"
slug: "lounes-matoub"
description: "Lounès Matoub was a Kabyle singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was an advocate of the Amazigh cause, human rights, and secularism in Algeria throughout his life."
tagline: "Algerian musician (1956–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Loun%C3%A8s_Matoub_1975.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-01-24"
deathDate: "1998-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.67265866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0522033/"
    handle:    "nm0522033"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://matoub.rebelle.free.fr/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loun%C3%A8s_Matoub"
    title: "Lounès Matoub"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loun%C3%A8s_Matoub"
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    title: "Lounès Matoub"
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    title: "Lounès Matoub"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lounès Matoub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lounès Matoub"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524362"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5921912"
    title: "Lounès Matoub"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump