# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-soto-de-langa
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:21:58.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-soto-de-langa"
name: "Francisco Soto de Langa"
slug: "francisco-soto-de-langa"
description: "Francisco Soto de Langa was a Spanish singer, editor and composer. A minor exponent of the lauda and priest of the Congregation of the Oratory where he was affiliated with St. Fillippo Neri and Giovanni Animuccia. Soto de Langa was tenured at the papal choir in Rome from 1562 until his retirement in 1611. Reputedly the first castrato to enter into the Papal Chapel, Langa had an instrumental role in the posthumous preservation of Juan Navarro's Psalmi, Hymni ac Magnificat totius Anni. A significant collection of laudi spirituali is extant, of which only a mere handful can be assigned to de Langa with any degree of certainty. Bold vertical harmonies and symmetrically balanced phrases are among his stylistic traits."
tagline: "Spanish composer (1534-1619)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_Soto_de_Langa_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1534"
deathDate: "1619-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.54
  momentum:             2.954545454545455
  historical:           5.937437333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2574032"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "فرانسيسكو سوتو د لانجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Soto_de_Langa"
    title: "Francisco Soto de Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Soto_de_Langa"
    title: "Francisco Soto de Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Soto_de_Langa"
    title: "Francisco Soto de Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Soto_de_Langa"
    title: "Francisco Soto de Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/638666df-50f1-4d26-b5d2-02263f43bc31"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751052"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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