# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-jordaan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:28:43.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnny-jordaan"
name: "Johnny Jordaan"
slug: "johnny-jordaan"
description: "Johnny Jordaan was the pseudonym for Johannes Hendricus van Musscher, a Dutch singer of popular music, in particular the genre known as levenslied, a Dutch variety of the French chanson. He was well known for his songs about the city of Amsterdam, especially the Jordaan district, which he sang in a typical \"hiccuping Mokum vibrato\", \"Mokum\" being the Hebrew-derived nickname for the Amsterdam inner city area. In the 1950s, Johnny Jordaan rose almost instantly to the level of national celebrity and became the \"uncrowned king of the Jordaanlied\", and his hit song \"Geef mij maar Amsterdam\" is one of the songs Amsterdammers identify with most."
tagline: "Dutch singer (1924–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnny_Jordaan.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-02-07"
deathDate: "1989-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.48
  momentum:             0.7932692307692307
  historical:           8.597413333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/512428"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جونى جوردان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jordaan"
    title: "Johnny Jordaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jordaan"
    title: "Johnny Jordaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جانی جردان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jordaan"
    title: "Johnny Jordaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jordaan"
    title: "Johnny Jordaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jordaan"
    title: "Johnny Jordaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jordaan"
    title: "Johnny Jordaan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/14086a44-c2f3-4e26-b16b-ae71a396d2dd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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