# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benoit-charest
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:18.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benoit-charest"
name: "Benoît Charest"
slug: "benoit-charest"
description: "Benoît Charest is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film The Triplets of Belleville  (2003), for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music. The song \"Belleville Rendez-vous\", in particular, earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a Grammy Award nomination."
tagline: "Canadian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beno%C3%AEt_Charest.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.38
  momentum:             1.197604790419162
  historical:           7.680130666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152844/"
    handle:    "nm0152844"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.benoitcharest.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/471892"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "بينويت تشاريست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Charest"
    title: "Benoît Charest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Charest"
    title: "Benoît Charest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Charest"
    title: "Benoît Charest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Charest"
    title: "Benoît Charest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Charest"
    title: "Benoît Charest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%B9_%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9"
    title: "بینویٹ چارسٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/17f6fb7a-e0f8-4c81-9d66-19607a59e8eb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2896465"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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