# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-trenet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:09:38.598Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-trenet"
name: "Charles Trenet"
slug: "charles-trenet"
description: "Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These songs include \"Boum!\" (1938), \"La Mer\" (1946) and \"Nationale 7\" (1955). Trenet is also noted for his work with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac, with whom he recorded \"Y'a d'la joie\" (1938) for the first and \"La Romance de Paris\" (1941) and \"Douce France\" (1947) for the latter. He was awarded an Honorary Molière Award in 2000."
tagline: "French singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Trenet_-_1951_-_1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1913-05-18"
deathDate: "2001-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.375201288244767
  historical:           24.63288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872081/"
    handle:    "nm0872081"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump