# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-nathaniel-dett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:15:53.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-nathaniel-dett"
name: "Robert Nathaniel Dett"
slug: "robert-nathaniel-dett"
description: "Robert Nathaniel Dett, often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with his family and had most of his professional education and career there. During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music."
tagline: "Canadian-American Black composer (1882–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1882-10-11"
deathDate: "1943-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.76
  momentum:             12.88135593220339
  historical:           5.964977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221938/"
    handle:    "nm0221938"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1560178"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "روبيرت ناثانيل ديت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett"
    title: "Robert Nathaniel Dett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett"
    title: "Robert Nathaniel Dett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett"
    title: "Robert Nathaniel Dett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett"
    title: "Robert Nathaniel Dett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/934458b7-e019-42bd-ac6e-8df24a703798"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2158341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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