# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dika-newlin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:05.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dika-newlin"
name: "Dika Newlin"
slug: "dika-newlin"
description: "Dika Newlin was a composer, pianist, professor, musicologist, and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living students of Arnold Schoenberg and was a Schoenberg scholar and a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from 1978 to 2004. She performed as an Elvis impersonator and played punk rock while in her seventies in Richmond, Virginia."
tagline: "American musician (1923–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Dika_newlin.jpg"
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: "1923-11-22"
deathDate: "2006-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.73952533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627974/"
    handle:    "nm0627974"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/701827"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ديكا نيولين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ディカ・ニューリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%94%94%EC%B9%B4_%EB%89%B4%EB%A6%B0"
    title: "디카 뉴린"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dika_Newlin"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/536c49de-4726-4b54-b0f6-9dfc6b76f051"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225258"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1196254"
    title: "Dika Newlin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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