# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shatta-wale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:50:40.141Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shatta-wale"
name: "Shatta Wale"
slug: "shatta-wale"
description: "Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr., known by his stage name Shatta Wale, formerly Bandana is a Ghanaian reggae-dancehall artist. Shatta Wale started with stage name \"Bandana” after senior high school and released the hit track \"Bandana from Ghana\". The song made tremendous airwaves in the Ghanaian music industry in 2004. Shatta Wale's sudden rise to the occasion happened in 2013 VGMA awards when he threw lyrical insults to VGMA now Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA), because he proclaimed they robbed him of the Dancehall artist of the year to a female Dancehall artist Kaakie. Even though the song had vulgar lyrics, it was so anticipated by the media which created his musical breakthrough."
tagline: "Ghanaian reggae-dancehall artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ShataWale.svg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1984-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.763692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1430000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/shattawalegh"
    handle:    "shattawalegh"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/shattawalenima/"
    handle:    "shattawalenima"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ShattaWaleshattaMovement"
    handle:    "ShattaWaleshattaMovement"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9724990/"
    handle:    "nm9724990"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/42q0rYXtR561ypg1Fcw1PI"
    handle:    "Shatta Wale"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb5XPdFG5KC05hy4mv0zi_A"
    handle:    "@shattawalegh"
    followers: 1430000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/6016100"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "شاتا وال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_wale"
    title: "Shatta wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_wale"
    title: "Shatta wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/387def2a-4309-4007-a51c-dfb1bc2c2962"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16885617"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2698153"
    title: "Shatta Wale"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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