# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-mangwana
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:09.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-mangwana"
name: "Sam Mangwana"
slug: "sam-mangwana"
description: "Samuel Domingos Mangwana, known professionally as Sam Mangwana, is a Congolese-born singer, born to Angolan parents. He sings in Lingala, Kikongo, Bambara, Swahili, French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish. He was the frontman of his bands Festival des Maquisards and African All Stars. Mangwana was a member of François Luambo Makiadi's seminal band TPOK Jazz, and Tabu Ley Rochereau's bands African Fiesta, African Fiesta National and Afrisa International."
tagline: "Congolese musician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           68.45
  momentum:             9.628393169877407
  historical:           13.846008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 68200
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2p7l0MAzxkEwRHgtCcLVFB"
    handle:    "2p7l0MAzxkEwRHgtCcLVFB"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://sammangwana.com/en/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbz0qnpUFskI23LlqB8qfsg"
    handle:    "Sam Mangwana - Topic"
    followers: 68200
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1141302"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "سام مانكوانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "سم منگوانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mangwana"
    title: "Sam Mangwana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "سیم منگوانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d2f6f28f-d44b-4338-a0f9-079da0faf2e6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q736281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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