# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matti-salminen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:16:56.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matti-salminen"
name: "Matti Salminen"
slug: "matti-salminen"
description: "Matti Kalervo Salminen is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He is distinguished by an imposing figure and height, a cavernous, heavy, dark voice with an expansive upper register, and an expressive face. According to one reviewer, in his prime, Salminen was \"... simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the way he carves the sonority and forms the color.\""
tagline: "Finnish singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matti_salminen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.68859066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758730/"
    handle:    "nm0758730"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Мати Салминен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen_(S%C3%A4nger)"
    title: "Matti Salminen (Sänger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B9_%CE%A3%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%BD"
    title: "Μάτι Σάλμινεν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Салминен, Матти"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Salminen"
    title: "Matti Salminen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Матті Салмінен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5db7d778-be9e-42b4-92eb-49b6f36ba5f0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712805"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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