# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-phiri
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:57:21.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-phiri"
name: "Ray Phiri"
slug: "ray-phiri"
description: "Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri was a South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician born in Mpumalanga to Thabethe Phiri, a Malawian immigrant worker, and South African guitarist nicknamed \"Just Now\" Phiri. He was a founding member of the Cannibals in the 1970s. When the Cannibals disbanded Ray founded Stimela, with whom he conceived gold and platinum-selling albums like Fire, Passion and Ecstacy (1984), Look, Listen and Decide (1986). He collaborated with Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on Simon's \nGraceland (1986) album."
tagline: "South African jazz musician (1947–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Phiri.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-03-23"
deathDate: "2017-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.69946266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681064/"
    handle:    "nm0681064"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "راى فيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Phiri"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/29641117-f908-4fa4-9240-92b959bb3eed"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q916743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2207864"
    title: "Ray Phiri"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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