# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-uwaifo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:37.295Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-uwaifo"
name: "Victor Uwaifo"
slug: "victor-uwaifo"
description: "Victor Efosa Uwaifo was a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor, university lecturer, and the first commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Nigeria. He was the winner of the first Gold disc in Africa (\"Joromi\") released in 1965 and seven other Gold discs in \"Guitar Boy\", \"Arabade\", the Ekassa series and his Akwete music. He recorded under the name \"Victor Uwaifo and His Titibitis\"."
tagline: "Nigerian musician (1941-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-03-01"
deathDate: "2021-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.61
  momentum:             6.954444795950648
  historical:           9.304682666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1973989"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "ڤيكتور وايفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo"
    title: "Victor Uwaifo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo"
    title: "Victor Uwaifo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo"
    title: "Victor Uwaifo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo"
    title: "Victor Uwaifo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://knc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo"
    title: "Victor Uwaifo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%BE%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Увайфо, Виктор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifo"
    title: "Victor Uwaifo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%B9%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "وکٹر اووائیفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Uwaifor"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a77f26ec-ec08-40dc-bc22-aeec8ce7c610"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7926410"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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