Louis Farrakhan

Farrakhan is one of the most polarizing figures I have ever written about, and I will not pretend otherwise. What fascinates me as an editor is the road he took: a calypso singer who performed as Calypso Gene, a trained violinist, a stage performer who learned how to hold a crowd long before he led one. Whatever you think of his rhetoric, and much of it deserves the criticism it gets, his command of an audience clearly began in music. He is less a man I admire than a man I find impossible to look away from, a living seam running through modern American history.

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Name (English)

Louis Farrakhan

Name (Japanese)

ルイス・ファラカーン

Reading

るいす・ふぁらかーん

Born

May 11, 1933 (age 93)

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / civil rights advocate / religious figure / journalist / politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

High school

Boston English High School

University

Winston-Salem State University

Awards & achievements

• Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/louisfarrakhan/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Farrakhan
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49075

Tags

• New York
• singer
• civil rights advocate
• religious figure

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.