# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bj-rn-alterhaug
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:32.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bj-rn-alterhaug"
name: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
slug: "bj-rn-alterhaug"
description: "Bjørn Alterhaug is a Norwegian jazz bassist, arranger, composer and professor of music at the Department of Music in the University of Trondheim since 1972."
tagline: "Norwegian jazz musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bj%C3%B8rn_Alterhaug_Oslo_Jazzfestival_2017_(221517).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.12
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           7.268934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "بچورن التيراوج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Alterhaug"
    title: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Alterhaug"
    title: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Alterhaug"
    title: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Alterhaug"
    title: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Alterhaug"
    title: "Bjørn Alterhaug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6031e02d-197d-4698-ac19-b9ba35f12496"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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