# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-quasthoff
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:19:12.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-quasthoff"
name: "Thomas Quasthoff"
slug: "thomas-quasthoff"
description: "Thomas Quasthoff is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is 1.34 m, and has phocomelia."
tagline: "German opera singer, bass-baritone (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Quasthoff_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-11-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           17.98947333333334
  currentAttention:     86.3697705802969
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Квастхофф, Томас"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump