# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-esswood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:56:55.186Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-esswood"
name: "Paul Esswood"
slug: "paul-esswood"
description: "Paul Lawrence Vincent Esswood is an English countertenor and conductor. He is best known for his performance of Bach cantatas and the operas of Handel and Monteverdi. Along with his countrymen Alfred Deller and James Bowman, he led the revival of countertenor singing in modern times."
tagline: "English countertenor and conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Admeto_(Georg_Friedrich_H%C3%A4ndel)_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._18294.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.84375
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.esswood.co.uk"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Paul Esswood"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Esswood"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Esswood"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Esswood"
    title: "Paul Esswood"
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  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Esswood"
    title: "Paul Esswood"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump