# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-rot
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:10:39.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-rot"
name: "Jan Rot"
slug: "jan-rot"
description: "Jan Rot was a Dutch singer-songwriter born in Makassar, who was famous in the Netherlands for his many translations of songs, pop as well as classical ones. His Dutch translation of Bach's St Matthew Passion peaked in the Dutch pop album charts at Easter 2006. In 2021, Rot was diagnosed with terminal cancer; he continued performing till April 2022 and died in Rotterdam on 22 April."
tagline: "Dutch singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Rot.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-12-25"
deathDate: "2022-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.74
  momentum:             2.112491824722041
  historical:           6.866672
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1518050/"
    handle:    "nm1518050"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7uAFGJI3FHtt6lPxvNnwPZ"
    handle:    "7uAFGJI3FHtt6lPxvNnwPZ"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.janrot.nl/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/711762"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rot"
    title: "Jan Rot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rot"
    title: "Jan Rot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rot_(sjonger)"
    title: "Jan Rot (sjonger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rot"
    title: "Jan Rot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rot_(zanger)"
    title: "Jan Rot (zanger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c36e294b-729c-4a8e-a271-7ac80dc83c82"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2230281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1250316"
    title: "Jan Rot"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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