# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kalevi-kiviniemi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:38:55.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kalevi-kiviniemi"
name: "Kalevi Kiviniemi"
slug: "kalevi-kiviniemi"
description: "Kalevi Ilmari Kiviniemi was a Finnish concert organist. He gave more than 2,000 concerts, and his discography includes nearly 200 titles, many of them featuring significant and unique organs in the US, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany. Kiviniemi was also regarded as a distinguished improviser. He was the first to record the complete organ works by Jean Sibelius."
tagline: "Finnish organist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Kalevi_Kiviniemi_%282a%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1958-06-30"
deathDate: "2024-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.25
  momentum:             0.1840490797546012
  historical:           7.672642666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1436070/"
    handle:    "nm1436070"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1156312"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "كاليڤى كيڤينيمى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_Kiviniemi"
    title: "Kalevi Kiviniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_Kiviniemi"
    title: "Kalevi Kiviniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_Kiviniemi"
    title: "Kalevi Kiviniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_Kiviniemi"
    title: "Kalevi Kiviniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F"
    title: "カレヴィ・イルマリ・キヴィニエミ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8"
    title: "Кивиниеми, Калеви"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/59edfdba-55fa-4a32-ad7c-815be845c92a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1722188"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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