# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikos-portokaloglou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:21.231Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikos-portokaloglou"
name: "Nikos Portokaloglou"
slug: "nikos-portokaloglou"
description: "Nikos Portokaloglou is a Greek singer-songwriter and lyricist. He started his career in 1980 as a founding member of Fatme. The band's first, self-titled album was released in 1982 and followed up by another five in the same decade, among them Taxidi and Vgenoume apo to tounel. In 1990, Portokaloglou embarked on a solo career, which he continues to pursue. Notable solo albums of his include Ta karavia mou keo, Dipsa, and Brazilero, which are the soundtrack for the eponymous movie. Portokaloglou further scored the films Akropol and Valkanizater. In 2002 he won three Arion awards in the categories \"Best Song\", \"Best Entechno Album\" and \"Best Movie Soundtrack\". He has cooperated with other well-known singers from Greece such as Haris Alexiou, Melina Kana and Eleftheria Arvanitaki."
tagline: "Greek singer and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikos_Portokaloglou_III.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.56
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.344709333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692515/"
    handle:    "nm0692515"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/38VfUvRpU0Tn6COM6AvMH0"
    handle:    "38VfUvRpU0Tn6COM6AvMH0"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "نيكوس پورتوكالوجلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Portokaloglou"
    title: "Nikos Portokaloglou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A0%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Νίκος Πορτοκάλογλου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Portokaloglou"
    title: "Nikos Portokaloglou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%83%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81"
    title: "Портокалоглу, Никос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Portokaloglou"
    title: "Nikos Portokaloglou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%83"
    title: "Нікос Портокалоглу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/69bf80b6-4f90-46f0-a88f-cce8c4b2dfa6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3557507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2086851"
    title: "Nikos Portokaloglou"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump