# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lourdes-van-dunem
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:12.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lourdes-van-dunem"
name: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
slug: "lourdes-van-dunem"
description: "Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem was an Angolan singer. Usually called Lourdes Van-Dúnem, she was born in Luanda, and rose to stardom in the 1960s with the group Ngola Ritmos. She recorded her first album, Monami, with this group. She toured several times in Portugal, Algeria, and Brazil, in addition to performances in Angola. After her first album, most of her career was spent with the group Jovens do Prenda."
tagline: "Angolan musician (1935-2006)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-04-29"
deathDate: "2006-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.204716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1213659"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_de_Lourdes_Pereira_dos_Santos_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_de_Lourdes_Pereira_dos_Santos_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Lourdes Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/869fae90-5e7e-4317-9966-fd455695b6d0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1790831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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