# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/n-ravikiran
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:29:26.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/n-ravikiran"
name: "N. Ravikiran"
slug: "n-ravikiran"
description: "Narasimhan Ravikiran is an Indian slide instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and orator, who created the concept of melharmony. He is the son of gottuvadhyam player Chitravina Narasimhan and the grandson of Narayan Iyengar, who was also a Carnatic musician."
tagline: "Indian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ravikiran_25_A.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1967-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             0.3896103896103897
  historical:           7.081138666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ان. راڤيكيران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಎನ್. ರವಿಕಿರಣ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "എൻ. രവികിരൺ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "என். ரவிகிரண்"
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    title: "ఎన్.రవికిరణ్"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump