# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olu-dara
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:03:03.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olu-dara"
name: "Olu Dara"
slug: "olu-dara"
description: "Olu Dara Jones is an American cornetist, guitarist, and singer. He is the father of rapper Nas."
tagline: "American musician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-01-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.88
  momentum:             0.06524725274725275
  historical:           11.04988133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200893/"
    handle:    "nm0200893"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/174747"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "اولو دارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%A9"
    title: "オル・ダラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Dara"
    title: "Olu Dara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c6a841d8-78d4-4b76-afa0-b848afaf5edb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1357746"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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