# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marco-paulo
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:47.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marco-paulo"
name: "Marco Paulo"
slug: "marco-paulo"
description: "João Simão da Silva, known professionally as Marco Paulo, was a Portuguese singer and television presenter. He was one of Portugal's most successful singers and a well-known television host. Many of his greatest hits in Portugal are credited covers of foreign songs that were relatively unknown to the Portuguese audience in their original versions."
tagline: "Portuguese singer (1945–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marco_Paulo_Cantor_Portugues.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-01-21"
deathDate: "2024-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.042876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1542808/"
    handle:    "nm1542808"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1000810"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo_(singer)"
    title: "Marco Paulo (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo_(chanteur)"
    title: "Marco Paulo (chanteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Paulo"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/80d3d433-d6ea-4522-a879-7627d05931d9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3290136"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3586941"
    title: "Marco Paulo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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