# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thione-seck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:26:18.213Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thione-seck"
name: "Thione Seck"
slug: "thione-seck"
description: "Thione Ballago Seck was a Senegalese singer and songwriter in the mbalakh genre. Seck came from a family of griot singers from the Wolof people of Senegal. He first performed with Orchestre Baobab, but he later formed his own band, Raam Daan, of which he was a member until his death in 2021."
tagline: "Senegalese singer (1955–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thione_Seck_06N4816.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1958-03-12"
deathDate: "2021-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.922970666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/454545"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thione_Seck"
    title: "Thione Seck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thione_Seck"
    title: "Thione Seck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thione_Seck"
    title: "Thione Seck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thione_Seck"
    title: "Thione Seck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "チョーン・セック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thione_Seck"
    title: "Thione Seck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thione_Seck"
    title: "Thione Seck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f4298cb3-d6c4-4904-a76d-fa21e2ce0f34"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3524673"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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