# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shabaka-hutchings
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:45:22.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shabaka-hutchings"
name: "Shabaka Hutchings"
slug: "shabaka-hutchings"
description: "Shabaka Hutchings, also known simply as Shabaka, is a British jazz musician, composer and bandleader. He leads the band Shabaka and the Ancestors, and formerly led Sons of Kemet before its dissolution in 2022. He was also a member of The Comet Is Coming, performing under the stage name King Shabaka. Hutchings has played saxophone and other wind instruments with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Andre 3000, Floating Points, Mulatu Astatke, Polar Bear, Melt Yourself Down, Heliocentrics, London Brew and Zed-U."
tagline: "English musical artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shabaka_Hutchings_Sons_of_Kemet_Oslo_Jazzfestival_2018_(223102).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: "1984"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.62
  momentum:             1.903171953255426
  historical:           6.905768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/shabakah"
    handle:    "shabakah"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/shabakahutchings/"
    handle:    "shabakahutchings"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/shabakahutchingsmusic"
    handle:    "shabakahutchingsmusic"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ywMpa6AmGJpV5Sbyy58Js"
    handle:    "6ywMpa6AmGJpV5Sbyy58Js"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1419450"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "شاباكا هوتكينجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%81"
    title: "Шабака Хътчингс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabaka_Hutchings"
    title: "Shabaka Hutchings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabaka_Hutchings"
    title: "Shabaka Hutchings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabaka_Hutchings"
    title: "Shabaka Hutchings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%87%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%81"
    title: "Шабака Гатчінгс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5b0f26cc-1203-49d8-abe2-90bec87a2e71"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31191422"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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