# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:54:23.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-bell"
name: "Donald Bell"
slug: "donald-bell"
description: "Donald Munro Bell is a Canadian bass-baritone and vocal pedagogue. For over four decades he actively performed in concerts and operas internationally. He retired from performance in 1994. As a vocal pedagogue he has researched and published studies on vocal acoustics and laryngeal function. He is the founder of the Vocal Arts Acoustical Research Group at the University of Calgary, where he currently serves on the voice faculty."
tagline: "Canadian opera singer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.93
  momentum:             15.48387096774194
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068158/"
    handle:    "nm0068158"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دونالد بيل"
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    title: "Donald Bell"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bell"
    title: "Donald Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bell_(bass-baritone)"
    title: "Donald Bell (bass-baritone)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bell"
    title: "Donald Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bell"
    title: "Donald Bell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump