# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-maniaci
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:15:08.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-maniaci"
name: "Michael Maniaci"
slug: "michael-maniaci"
description: "Michael Maniaci is an American opera singer. Possessing a male soprano voice, Maniaci is noted for his claim to be able to sing into the upper soprano range without resorting to falsetto, an otherwise common phonation for men who sing in high registers, such as countertenors. Although this was possible for castrati because of the hormonal imbalance following castration, Maniaci claims that, for some unknown reason, his larynx did not develop and lengthen completely during puberty, causing his voice not to \"break\" in the usual manner. Maniaci claims that this physical particularity has given him the ability to sing in the soprano register without sounding like a typical countertenor or a female singer. There are, however, critics who claim that Maniaci actually sings in falsetto."
tagline: "Countertenor who has soprano range"
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: "1976-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.835568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a919936-5843-416b-ab9e-064c1977cd7b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci"
    title: "Michael Maniaci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3825458"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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