# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bejun-mehta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:21:08.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bejun-mehta"
name: "Bejun Mehta"
slug: "bejun-mehta"
description: "Bejun Mehta is an American countertenor and voice teacher. He has been awarded the Echo Klassik, the Gramophone Award, Le Diamant d’Opera Magazine, the Choc de Classica, the Traetta Prize, and been nominated for the Grammy Award, the Laurence Olivier Award, and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Michael Stallknecht called him \"arguably the best counter tenor in the world today.\""
tagline: "American opera singer (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bejun_Mehta_Photo_by_Marco_Borggreve_23_May_2010_Amsterdam.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1968-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.95
  momentum:             4.374999999999999
  historical:           8.759973333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bejunmehta.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/833234"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejun_Mehta"
    title: "Bejun Mehta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a18cbbe-f7b3-491c-88d8-b79dbe8cb2bb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q814981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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