Louis Farrakhan
American religious (born 1935), leader of Nation of Islam (since 1981)
- Born
- 11 May 1933, The Bronx
- Age
- 93
- Birth name
- Louis Eugene Walcott
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, later Louis X) is an American religious leader who has been the head of the Nation of Islam since 1981, a new religious movement which combines black nationalism and Islamic terminology. Prior to joining and leading the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene from 1950 to 1955 and a violinist from 1939 to 1955. The longest-serving Nation of Islam leader, he also served as minister of several mosques in Boston and Harlem in the 1950s under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad.
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