# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sampha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:11:17.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sampha"
name: "Sampha"
slug: "sampha"
description: "Sampha Lahai Sisay is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer from Morden, South London. Sampha has collaborated with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Alicia Keys, Gorillaz, Florence + the Machine, Travis Scott, Kanye West, Daniel Caesar, Solange and others. Sampha has released two solo EPs: Sundanza (2010) and Dual (2013). Sampha's debut album, Process, was released on 3 February 2017 by Young and won the 2017 Mercury Prize. His second album, Lahai, was released on 20 October 2023."
tagline: "English singer and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sampha_VEGA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1988-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           71.64
  momentum:             3.838124297414485
  historical:           12.97687866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     100
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 200000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Sampha"
    handle:    "Sampha"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/samphaaa/"
    handle:    "samphaaa"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@_sampha"
    handle:    "_sampha"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Sampha-144200692175"
    handle:    "Sampha-144200692175"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7857161/"
    handle:    "nm7857161"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2WoVwexZuODvclzULjPQtm"
    handle:    "2WoVwexZuODvclzULjPQtm"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://sampha.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXHwpZVFBtFI5a-CYtSKd6w"
    handle:    "@sampha_"
    followers: 200000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1561067"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "سامفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%94"
    title: "סמפה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1"
    title: "サンファ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%98%ED%8C%8C"
    title: "샘파"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampha"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/130c2184-14f2-4180-a216-04b5a333be57"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15629610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1969568"
    title: "Sampha"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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