# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malachi-ritscher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:27.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malachi-ritscher"
name: "Malachi Ritscher"
slug: "malachi-ritscher"
description: "Malachi Ritscher was an American musician, recording engineer, human rights activist, and anti-war protester. He died by self-immolation, an act of protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq."
tagline: "American musician (1954–2006)"
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: "1954-01-13"
deathDate: "2006-11-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.35
  momentum:             0.8322981366459627
  historical:           6.831392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/585187"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "ملاخى ريتشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi_Ritscher"
    title: "Malachi Ritscher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi_Ritscher"
    title: "Malachi Ritscher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi_Ritscher"
    title: "Malachi Ritscher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachi_Ritscher"
    title: "Malachi Ritscher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Ричер, Малакай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cf0a072d-b676-4015-bbdb-57a8536db98c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3281164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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