# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franco-simone
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:06:45.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franco-simone"
name: "Franco Simone"
slug: "franco-simone"
description: "Francesco Luigi \"Franco\" Simone is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and television host, known as il poeta con la chitarra for the poetical value of his lyrics."
tagline: "Italian recording artist; singer-songwriter, television writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FRANCO_SIMONE_Concerto_Siciliano_Estate_2005.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.00235066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200598/"
    handle:    "nm1200598"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.francosimone.it/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/851819"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "فرانكو بيترو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "فرانكو بيترو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Simone"
    title: "Franco Simone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Simone"
    title: "Franco Simone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Simone"
    title: "Franco Simone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87"
    title: "فرانکو سیمونه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Simone_(chanteur)"
    title: "Franco Simone (chanteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Simone"
    title: "Franco Simone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franco_Simone"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f00fbcb8-95e8-485c-bc3b-39939b0c5b29"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751602"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3304374"
    title: "Franco Simone"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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