# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samoela
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:56:02.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samoela"
name: "Samoëla"
slug: "samoela"
description: "Samoëla Rasolofoniaina, better known as Samoëla, is a Malagasy vocalist and composer of contemporary folk fusion and roots music that draws upon musical traditions throughout the island of Madagascar. He typically sings and plays acoustic guitar, accompanied by an ensemble including bass guitar, Western and traditional percussion, and backup singers. He is distinguished by his use of hainteny traditional poetry and its metaphorical language, as well as youth slang and culturally subversive direct language to critique and address sensitive social and political topics."
tagline: "Malagasy vocalist and composer of contemporary folk fusion and roots music that draws upon musical traditions throughout the island of Madagascar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samo%C3%ABla_en_2011.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1976-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.27
  momentum:             8.211309523809524
  historical:           5.938445333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e913b6d6-b21c-4a15-9527-272db273ab2f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "سامويلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo%C3%ABla"
    title: "Samoëla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo%C3%ABla"
    title: "Samoëla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo%C3%ABla"
    title: "Samoëla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo%C3%ABla"
    title: "Samoëla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo%C3%ABla"
    title: "Samoëla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17107797"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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