# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nana-ampadu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:19:26.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nana-ampadu"
name: "Nana Ampadu"
slug: "nana-ampadu"
description: "Nana Kwame Ampadu was a Ghanaian musician and composer. Considered as one of the greatest Ghanaian musician of all time, he's credited with numerous popular highlife and he is known to have composed over 800 songs. He was also known as Adwomtofo Nyinaa hempɔn. Ampadu was the lead singer, chief songwriter, and founder of the \"African Brothers Band\". He is regarded as a pioneer of highlife and afrobeat music and one of the most illustrious Ghanaian musicians of the 20th century."
tagline: "Ghanaian highlife artiste (1945–2021)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-03-31"
deathDate: "2021-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.25
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.080094666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10700485/"
    handle:    "nm10700485"
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Ampadu"
    title: "Nana Ampadu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Ampadu"
    title: "Nana Ampadu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Ampadu"
    title: "Nana Ampadu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%88%D9%88"
    title: "نانا امپاڈو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Ampadu"
    title: "Nana Ampadu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Ampadu"
    title: "Nana Ampadu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20088941"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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