# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pumeza-matshikiza
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:54:36.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pumeza-matshikiza"
name: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
slug: "pumeza-matshikiza"
description: "Pumeza Matshikiza is a South African operatic soprano. A graduate of the Royal College of Music and a member of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme from 2007 to 2009, she made her début as a flower maiden in Parsifal and has gone on to sing leading soprano roles with Stuttgart Opera. Matshikiza has released two solo albums on the Decca Classics label."
tagline: "South African singer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1979-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.940461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PumezaSoprano"
    handle:    "PumezaSoprano"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PumezaOfficial"
    handle:    "PumezaOfficial"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://pumeza.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/907e8b6b-df5c-43bd-aa5b-88906220f2b2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumeza_Matshikiza"
    title: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumeza_Matshikiza"
    title: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumeza_Matshikiza"
    title: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumeza_Matshikiza"
    title: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumeza_Matshikiza"
    title: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumeza_Matshikiza"
    title: "Pumeza Matshikiza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17386587"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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