# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-balavoine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:51:01.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-balavoine"
name: "Daniel Balavoine"
slug: "daniel-balavoine"
description: "Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine was a French singer and songwriter. He was popular in the French-speaking world in the early 1980s; he inspired many singers of his generation such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Berger, who was his closest friend, as well as the Japanese pop-rock group Crystal King. Balavoine was a part of the original cast of the rock opera Starmania in 1978, which was written by Berger."
tagline: "French recording artist; singer-songwriter (1952–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Balavoine_sur_TF1_en_1980_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-02-05"
deathDate: "1986-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.158054135907628
  historical:           20.59439733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  240
  category: null
totalFollowers: 6820
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049490/"
    handle:    "nm0049490"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    handle:    "@danielbalavoinevevo8556"
    followers: 6820
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump