# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melanie-scholtz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:17:59.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melanie-scholtz"
name: "Melanie Scholtz"
slug: "melanie-scholtz"
description: "Melanie Scholtz is a South African-born jazz singer, songwriter, composer, dancer, and visual artist who has performed with Wynton Marsalis, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Hugh Masakela."
tagline: "South African musician (born 1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melanie_Scholtz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1979-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.26
  momentum:             16.26315789473684
  historical:           5.737185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.melaniescholtz.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1883196"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Scholtz"
    title: "Melanie Scholtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Scholtz"
    title: "Melanie Scholtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Scholtz"
    title: "Melanie Scholtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Scholtz"
    title: "Melanie Scholtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Scholtz"
    title: "Melanie Scholtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4e47263e-e368-47e2-a33d-aeba0cb0439d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57515859"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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