# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sudirman-arshad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:24:17.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sudirman-arshad"
name: "Sudirman Arshad"
slug: "sudirman-arshad"
description: "Dato' Sudirman bin Haji Arshad, known mononymously as Sudirman, was a Malaysian singer, songwriter and actor. His singing career kicked off after winning the Bintang RTM singing competition on 11 August 1976. His career defining moment came after he was awarded winner of the \"1989 Asia's No. 1 Performer\" title during the ‘'Asian Popular Music Awards'’ competition held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 19 March 1989. \nThroughout his career, he was known as the \"Singing Lawyer\", the \"People's Singer\", the \"Patriotic Singer\" and the \"Elvis Presley and Claude François of Malaysia\". Apart from being a singer and actor, he was also a lawyer, a composer, writer, cartoonist, and entrepreneur."
tagline: "Malaysian singer and songwriter (1954-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sudirman1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1954-05-25"
deathDate: "1992-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.7
  momentum:             15.71742808798646
  historical:           11.714012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354487/"
    handle:    "nm0354487"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1HvVjPpCzFFgIo2XrDxM2x"
    handle:    "1HvVjPpCzFFgIo2XrDxM2x"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3691881"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "سوديرمان ارشاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman_(singer)"
    title: "Sudirman (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman_Arshad"
    title: "Sudirman Arshad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman_Arshad"
    title: "Sudirman Arshad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%89"
    title: "スディルマン・アーシャド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%88%98%EB%94%94%EB%A5%B4%EB%A7%8C_%EC%95%84%EB%A5%B4%EC%83%A4%EB%93%9C"
    title: "수디르만 아르샤드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman_(penyanyi)"
    title: "Sudirman (penyanyi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman_(piosenkarz)"
    title: "Sudirman (piosenkarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Судирман Аршад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%98%87%E8%BF%AA%E6%9B%BC"
    title: "蘇迪曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%8F%E8%BF%AA%E6%9B%BC_(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B)"
    title: "苏迪曼 (歌手)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4fabccd9-8260-4a57-aefa-1aa08a024a47"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7633880"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1291854"
    title: "Sudirman Haji Arshad"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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