# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caroline-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:52:05.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caroline-shaw"
name: "Caroline Shaw"
slug: "caroline-shaw"
description: "Caroline Adelaide Shaw is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. In 2013 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices, and received the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Narrow Sea. She also won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for her Rectangles and Circumstance."
tagline: "American composer, violinist, and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caroline_Shaw_with_Attacca_Quartet_and_So_Percussion_at_Miller_Theater_-_49517838252.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1982-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.86772666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6388394/"
    handle:    "nm6388394"
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    handle:    "3uUFClFtbjbjQQIq4BjY2C"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://carolineshaw.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كارولين شو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارولين شو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کارولین شو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%90%EB%A1%A4%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B8_%EC%87%BC"
    title: "캐롤라인 쇼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
    title: "Caroline Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Shaw"
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    title: "Шоу, Кэролайн"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump