# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sampa-the-great
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:09:36.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sampa-the-great"
name: "Sampa the Great"
slug: "sampa-the-great"
description: "Sampa Tembo, known professionally as Sampa the Great, is a Zambian singer, rapper, and songwriter. Between 2014 and 2020, she was based in Australia. Her debut solo album, The Return, peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the 2019 ARIA Music Awards she won Best Hip Hop Release for her second single, \"Final Form\". In the following year she won the same category for The Return, as well as Best Female Artist and Best Independent Release. In March 2020 Sampa became the first artist to win the Australian Music Prize twice: for Birds and the Bee9 and The Return. The artist was based back in Zambia from late 2020, where she issued her second studio album, As Above, So Below."
tagline: "Zambian-Australian rapper and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sampa_the_Great%2C_2019_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1993"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           65.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.070632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 215000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/sampa_the_great"
    handle:    "sampa_the_great"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/sampa_the_great/"
    handle:    "sampa_the_great"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/sampathegreat"
    handle:    "sampathegreat"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7fw0E8WHdG3r9SuPBcGmWk"
    handle:    "7fw0E8WHdG3r9SuPBcGmWk"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.sampathegreat.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPHV1vMBvc-hce4Z5xP88A"
    handle:    "@sampa_the_great"
    followers: 215000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4610610"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampa_the_Great"
    title: "Sampa the Great"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampa_the_Great"
    title: "Sampa the Great"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampa_the_Great"
    title: "Sampa the Great"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampa_the_Great"
    title: "Sampa the Great"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampa_the_Great"
    title: "Sampa the Great"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampa_the_Great"
    title: "Sampa the Great"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9d79c790-9897-464e-aef0-db5bd3290f00"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50720645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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