# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shamshi-kaldayakov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:42:57.654Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shamshi-kaldayakov"
name: "Shamshi Kaldayakov"
slug: "shamshi-kaldayakov"
description: "Shamshi Kaldayakov was a Kazakh composer. He was born Şämşı Donbaev, but ran away from school and changed his name to avoid the police. He started playing music aged 17 and mainly wrote songs in a waltz style, but in 1956, he composed the music to the patriotic song My Kazakhstan. It was adopted in 2006 to be the Kazakhstan national anthem by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after a few modifications in the lyrics."
tagline: "Kazakhstani musician (1930–1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shamshi_Kaldayakov_village.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-08-15"
deathDate: "1992-02-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.043164
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4b705cb3-7f95-4183-9d16-17cd176036cd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "شامشى كالداياكوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamshi_Kaldayakov"
    title: "Shamshi Kaldayakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0am%C5%A1i_Kaldajakov"
    title: "Šamši Kaldajakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%87%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%B7%D5%AB_%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%BE"
    title: "Շամշի Կալդայակով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D3%99%D0%BC%D1%88%D1%96_%D2%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%8F%D2%9B%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Шәмші Қалдаяқов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%B4%EC%8B%9C_%EC%B9%BC%EB%8B%A4%EC%95%BC%EC%BD%94%ED%94%84"
    title: "샴시 칼다야코프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamshi_Kaldayakov"
    title: "Shamshi Kaldayakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%88%D0%B8"
    title: "Калдаяков, Шамши"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%AD_%E0%B8%86%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%9F"
    title: "แชมเชอ ฆัลดายาโกฟ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D3%99%D0%BC%D1%88%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Шәмши Калдаяков"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%88%D1%96_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Шамші Калдаяков"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B4%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "شمشی کلدایکوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamshi_Qaldayaqov"
    title: "Shamshi Qaldayaqov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1036808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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