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Louis Farrakhan

ルイス・ファラカーン　/　るいす・ふぁらかーん

American singer

May 11, 1933 (age 93)　・　The Bronx, New York, United States

New York
singer
civil rights advocate
religious figure

My Take

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.

Overview

Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, later Louis X; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who has been the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) since 1981, an organization which combines black nationalism and Islamic teachings. Prior to the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene from 1950 to 1955 and a violinist from 1939 to 1955.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

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)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Rooster
Origin: The Bronx, New York, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / civil rights advocate / religious figure / journalist / politician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Boston English High School
University: Winston-Salem State University

Awards & achievements

Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/louisfarrakhan/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Farrakhan

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