# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/portia-white
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:42:32.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/portia-white"
name: "Portia White"
slug: "portia-white"
description: "Portia May White was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, White competed in local singing competitions as a teenager and later trained at the Halifax Conservatory of Music. In 1941 and 1944, she made her national and international debuts as a singer, receiving critical acclaim for her performances of both classical European music and African-American spirituals. White later completed tours throughout Europe, the Caribbean, and Central and South America."
tagline: "Canadian opera singer (1911-1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portia_White.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-06-24"
deathDate: "1968-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.424732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4793181"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_White"
    title: "Portia White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_White"
    title: "Portia White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_White"
    title: "Portia White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%9F"
    title: "पोर्सिया व्हाइट"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_White"
    title: "Portia White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_White"
    title: "Portia White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Уайт, Порция"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_White"
    title: "Portia White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82"
    title: "Порція Вайт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/28486fc0-8147-4ef1-9564-aa55a26032f9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2501612"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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