# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nils-frykman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:08:00.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nils-frykman"
name: "Nils Frykman"
slug: "nils-frykman"
description: "Nils Frykman was a Swedish teacher, evangelist and hymnwriter. He came to the United States in 1888 and was a pastor at Evangelical Covenant Churches in Illinois and Minnesota for nearly two decades. Known as \"the joyous Christian singer\", Frykman wrote over three hundred hymns, many of which are still sung by worshipers in Sweden and the United States."
tagline: "Swedish teacher, evangelist and hymnwriter, emigrated to the United States (1842-1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nils_Frykman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1842-10-20"
deathDate: "1911-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.63
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.937473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2634a638-3003-4a20-8ce8-dfd6ccca23f0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "نيلس فريكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Frykman"
    title: "Nils Frykman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Frykman"
    title: "Nils Frykman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Frykman"
    title: "Nils Frykman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81"
    title: "Фрикман, Нильс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Frykman"
    title: "Nils Frykman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3374521"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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