# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sayat-nova
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:32:39.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sayat-nova"
name: "Sayat-Nova"
slug: "sayat-nova"
description: "An 18th-century ashugh who wrote and sang in multiple languages, straddling the Ottoman, Persian, and Georgian worlds at a time when poetry still traveled by voice."
tagline: "Armenian musician and poet (1712–1795)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rus_Stamp_Sayat_Nova.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1712-06-14"
deathDate: "1795-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           23.836376
  currentAttention:     1.785714285714286
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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    handle:    "nm0636774"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "サヤト＝ノヴァ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Harutyun Sayatyan on 14 June 1712, he took the pen name Sayat-Nova and became a poet and musician working across Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, and Persian. He composed in the ashugh tradition—part troubadour, part court entertainer—moving through the cultures of the Caucasus and beyond. His work carried across linguistic borders in an era when a single artist could hold several traditions at once. He died on 22 September 1795, leaving behind a body of song that refused to belong to only one people.