# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/talal-maddah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:59:56.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/talal-maddah"
name: "Talal Maddah"
slug: "talal-maddah"
description: "Talal Maddah was a Saudi Arabian musician and composer. He was named Maddah after his mother's family and was commonly nicknamed as \"The Earth's Voice\". He had a substantial influence over 20th century-Arabian culture."
tagline: "Saudi musician (1940–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Talal_Maddah_-_al-jazirah_newspaper_1983.jpg/330px-Talal_Maddah_-_al-jazirah_newspaper_1983.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-08-05"
deathDate: "2000-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.220824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talal_Maddah"
    title: "Talal Maddah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talal_al-Maddah"
    title: "Talal al-Maddah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%90%D7%97"
    title: "טלאל מדאח"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talal_Maddah"
    title: "Talal Maddah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "Талал Маддах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "طلال مداح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ccc6a969-b0d9-48d0-8bfd-6360bbcef02d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4165378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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