# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noirin-ni-riain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:01:45.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noirin-ni-riain"
name: "Nóirín Ní Riain"
slug: "noirin-ni-riain"
description: "Nóirín Ní Riain is an Irish singer, writer, teacher, theologian, and authority on Gregorian Chant. She is primarily known for spiritual songs, but also sings Celtic music, sean-nós and Indian songs. Nóirín plays an Indian harmonium (surpeti), shruti box and feadóg (whistle). She was Artist-in-Residence for Wexford and Laois. She performs with her sons Eoin and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin under the name A.M.E.N. and gives workshops about \"Sound as a Spiritual Experience\"."
tagline: "Irish singer and theologian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/N%C3%B3ir%C3%ADn_N%C3%AD_Riain.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.42
  momentum:             12.93103448275862
  historical:           5.945573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.theosony.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/663398"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B3ir%C3%ADn_N%C3%AD_Riain"
    title: "Nóirín Ní Riain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B3ir%C3%ADn_N%C3%AD_Riain"
    title: "Nóirín Ní Riain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B3ir%C3%ADn_N%C3%AD_Riain"
    title: "Nóirín Ní Riain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B3ir%C3%ADn_N%C3%AD_Riain"
    title: "Nóirín Ní Riain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D1%96_%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Нойрін Ні Ріайн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/16541341-7c00-427e-8ed8-b6ce72b92f3d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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