# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malam-maman-barka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:28.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malam-maman-barka"
name: "Malam Maman Barka"
slug: "malam-maman-barka"
description: "Malam Mamane Barka was a Nigerien musician, and one of the world's most prominent players of the biram African harp. He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59."
tagline: "Nigerien musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malam_Maman_Barka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959"
deathDate: "2018-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.85
  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           7.271022666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1947108"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malam_Maman_Barka"
    title: "Malam Maman Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamane_Barka"
    title: "Mamane Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malam_Mamane_Barka"
    title: "Malam Mamane Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamane_Barka"
    title: "Mamane Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamane_Barka"
    title: "Mamane Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamane_Barka"
    title: "Mamane Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamane_Barka"
    title: "Mamane Barka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/692e085c-074f-4a41-8f32-37ff819e1920"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1886691"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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