# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-b-higgins
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:35.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-b-higgins"
name: "Jon B. Higgins"
slug: "jon-b-higgins"
description: "Jon Borthwick Higgins, also known in India as Higgins Bhagavatar, was an American musician, scholar, and teacher known principally for his rare skill as a non-Indian in the field of Carnatic music."
tagline: "Indian singer (1939-1984)"
gender: "male"
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: "1939-09-18"
deathDate: "1984-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.98
  momentum:             3.558768656716418
  historical:           6.143701333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e9d44824-bede-4084-9397-32909e94a6f2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A._%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جون بي. هيغينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_B._Higgins"
    title: "Jon B. Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_B._Higgins"
    title: "Jon B. Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%AF%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جان بی هیگنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BA_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "ജോൺ ബോർത്‌വിക് ഹിഗ്ഗിൻസ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_B._Higgins"
    title: "Jon B. Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6270340"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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