# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-callea
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:10:39.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-callea"
name: "Anthony Callea"
slug: "anthony-callea"
description: "Anthony Cosmo Callea is an Australian singer-songwriter and stage actor who rose to prominence as the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. Callea's debut single, a cover of Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli's song \"The Prayer\", is the fastest-selling single by an Australian artist; it held the number-one spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for five weeks, a record for the debut single of an Australian Idol contestant, and was the second-highest-selling Australian single of the 2000s."
tagline: "Australian singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AnthonyCalleainconcertDec08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1982-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.55796266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AnthonyCallea"
    handle:    "AnthonyCallea"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/anthonycallea/"
    handle:    "anthonycallea"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/anthonycalleaofficial"
    handle:    "anthonycalleaofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1693319/"
    handle:    "nm1693319"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://anthonycallea.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/948089"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "انثونى كاليا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A6%D8%A7"
    title: "انتونی کالئا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Callea"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Callea"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A6%D8%A7"
    title: "آنتونی کالئا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Callea"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Callea"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Callea"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Callea"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2"
    title: "アンソニー・カリア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A4%EC%84%9C%EB%8B%88_%EC%B9%BC%EB%A6%AC%EC%95%84"
    title: "앤서니 칼리아"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E6%9D%B1%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E5%87%B1%E5%88%A9"
    title: "安東尼·凱利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d915a89a-a4ec-4dc0-8ce6-c234581cb3e9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2852832"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1226338"
    title: "Anthony Callea"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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