# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toure
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:51:25.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toure"
name: "Touré"
slug: "toure"
description: "Touré is an American writer, music journalist, cultural critic, podcaster, and television personality. He was a co-host of the TV show The Cycle on MSNBC. He was also a contributor to MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, and the host of Fuse's Hiphop Shop and On the Record. He serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. He taught a course on the history of hip-hop at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, part of the Tisch School of the Arts in New York."
tagline: "American author (born 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tour%C3%A9May2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1971-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.88
  momentum:             25
  historical:           8.276506666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ToureX"
    handle:    "ToureX"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/TourePage"
    handle:    "TourePage"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1648457/"
    handle:    "nm1648457"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/33904695-02f7-4ce2-b879-3fd57a8d2f0c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "توريه (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "توريه (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9_(journalist)"
    title: "Touré (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Touré (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9"
    title: "Touré"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9"
    title: "Touré"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ture_(jurnalist)"
    title: "Ture (jurnalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3535581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1667100"
    title: "Garba Touré"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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