# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kalan-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:17:27.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kalan-porter"
name: "Kalan Porter"
slug: "kalan-porter"
description: "Richard Kalan Porter is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Medicine Hat, Alberta, and the winner of the reality television series Canadian Idol in 2004. He started to sing at an early age and is classically trained, playing several instruments, most notably, the violin and viola. He writes and arranges violin solos for many of his songs.\nPorter's first single \"Awake in a Dream\" is the best selling debut single for a Canadian artist to date and has been certified 8× Platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. He is also the highest selling solo Canadian Idol singer. In 2013, he was a graduate student in business at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania."
tagline: "Canadian pop singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kalan_Porter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1985-11-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.47
  momentum:             7.611940298507462
  historical:           6.83528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1719734/"
    handle:    "nm1719734"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kalanporter.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c4f34a26-6c82-49f8-8519-dc78d2972cd3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "كالان بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "كالان بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "کالان بورتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalan_Porter"
    title: "Kalan Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalan_Porter"
    title: "Kalan Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalan_Porter"
    title: "Kalan Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4209493"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234718"
    title: "Kalan Porter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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