# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-bilia-bel
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:23:47.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-bilia-bel"
name: "M'bilia Bel"
slug: "m-bilia-bel"
description: "Marie-Claire Mboyo Moseka, known professionally as Mbilia Bel, is a Congolese singer and songwriter. Dubbed the \"Queen of African Rumba\" and \"Queen Cleopatra\", she is regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Congolese and African popular music. Her music is a blend of traditional Congolese rumba, soukous, rap, and zouk, with lyrics that often delve into themes of love, politics, hedonism, militancy, jealousy, sentimentality, and education."
tagline: "Congolese singer and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mbilia_Bel_et_Verckys_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.66
  momentum:             16.32373562681125
  historical:           12.657636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Mbilia-Bel-1337695516305450"
    handle:    "Mbilia-Bel-1337695516305450"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/398748"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%84"
    title: "مبيليا بل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'bilia_Bel"
    title: "M'bilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Mbilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Mbilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'bilia_Bel"
    title: "M'bilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E2%80%99bilia_Bel"
    title: "M’bilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Mbilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'bilia_Bel"
    title: "M'bilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Mbilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Mbilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Mbilia Bel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ایم بیلیا بیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M'bilia_Bel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mbilia_Bel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/M'bilia_Bel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e35d7c3d-69fe-47c1-8dc8-8258abedf12a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3303525"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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