# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-la-barbara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:49.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-la-barbara"
name: "Joan La Barbara"
slug: "joan-la-barbara"
description: "Joan Linda Lotz La Barbara is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or \"extended\" vocal techniques. Considered to be a vocal virtuoso in the field of contemporary music, she is credited with advancing a new vocabulary of vocal sounds including trills, whispers, cries, sighs, inhaled tones, and multiphonics."
tagline: "American singer and composer (born 1947)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1cBZFkZvU7Z9bnA4sKu96T7oDTk.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: "1947-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             32.98305084745763
  historical:           11.627576
  currentAttention:     15.48
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0479325/"
    handle:    "nm0479325"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joanlabarbara.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جوان لا باربرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوان لا باربرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "جوآن لا باربارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_La_Barbara"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1292680"
    title: "Joan La Barbara"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump