# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nils-olav-johansen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:04.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nils-olav-johansen"
name: "Nils-Olav Johansen"
slug: "nils-olav-johansen"
description: "Nils-Olav Johansen is a major Norwegian entertainer and jazz musician, known from several recordings and as orchestra leader. He is with Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Stian Carstensen, central members of the Balkan-jazz orchestra Farmers Market."
tagline: "Norwegian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nils-Olav_Johansen_Kongsberg_Jazzfestival_2017_(225246).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.935637333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nilsolavjohansen.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/804220"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "نيلس ولاڤ چوهانسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Olav_Johansen"
    title: "Nils-Olav Johansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Olav_Johansen"
    title: "Nils-Olav Johansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Olav_Johansen"
    title: "Nils-Olav Johansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Olav_Johansen"
    title: "Nils-Olav Johansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ad0014a8-3b86-487e-ab8c-2573c42943b1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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