# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/massimo-palombella
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:01:59.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/massimo-palombella"
name: "Massimo Palombella"
slug: "massimo-palombella"
description: "Massimo Palombella is an Italian Salesian priest and he was director of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina, succeeding Giuseppe Liberto, and before him Domenico Bartolucci and Lorenzo Perosi and preceding Marcos Pavan. Having run the choir for eight years, in late 2024 he was ordered to pay back €127,000 of embezzled funds he stole from the choir’s global tours. He was also sentenced for this crime to three years in prison."
tagline: "Italian composer, priest and conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Massimo_Palombella.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1967-12-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.02
  momentum:             15.57761732851985
  historical:           6.143881333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.massimopalombella.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5247547"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ماسيمو پالومبيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Palombella"
    title: "Massimo Palombella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Palombella"
    title: "Massimo Palombella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Palombella"
    title: "Massimo Palombella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Palombella"
    title: "Massimo Palombella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7424edf6-1de7-49d2-8b76-2c68cd863290"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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