# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maija-vilkkumaa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:16:26.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maija-vilkkumaa"
name: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
slug: "maija-vilkkumaa"
description: "Maija Johanna Vilkkumaa is a Finnish pop rock singer-songwriter. Beginning her musical hobbies playing piano at an age before school, Vilkkumaa studied in high school where she and her friends set up the band Tarharyhmä in 1990, which broke up in 1995. While studying Finnish language at the University of Helsinki, she started to take singing lessons and went on to start her solo career in 1999."
tagline: "Finnish singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maijavilkkumaa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1973-11-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.07807866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/maijavilkkumaa"
    handle:    "maijavilkkumaa"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/maijavilkkumaa/"
    handle:    "maijavilkkumaa"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/maijavilkkumaa"
    handle:    "maijavilkkumaa"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1372363/"
    handle:    "nm1372363"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LhCodjo3UFI0Bu0ZYuOP5"
    handle:    "4LhCodjo3UFI0Bu0ZYuOP5"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/524934"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%86%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "مايچا ڤيلكوما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Vilkkumaa"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F"
    title: "Вилккумаа, Майя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%A8%85%C2%B7%E7%BB%B4%E5%B0%94%E5%BA%93%E9%A9%AC"
    title: "迈娅·维尔库马"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5de56a0c-8860-4f7d-a819-51b8dd993ae6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1207864"
    title: "Maija Vilkkumaa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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