# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simha-arom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:08:18.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simha-arom"
name: "Simha Arom"
slug: "simha-arom"
description: "Simha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. He also made influential field recordings of Aka Pygmy and Banda Linda music."
tagline: "French-Israeli ethnomusicologist recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simha_Arom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.27
  momentum:             7.974683544303795
  historical:           8.347841333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4715170/"
    handle:    "nm4715170"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Simha Arom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simha Arom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simha_Arom"
    title: "Simha Arom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simha_Arom"
    title: "Simha Arom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simha_Arom"
    title: "Simha Arom"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simha_Arom"
    title: "Simha Arom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simha_Arom"
    title: "Simha Arom"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3063581"
    title: "Arom Simha"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump