# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tran-van-khe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:45:38.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tran-van-khe"
name: "Trần Văn Khê"
slug: "tran-van-khe"
description: "Trần Văn Khê was a Vietnamese musicologist, academic, writer, teacher and performer of traditional music. He was father of the musician ethnomusicologist Trần Quang Hải. His La musique viêtnamienne traditionnelle was for many years a standard text of Vietnamese musicology."
tagline: "Musicologist (1921-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Kh%C3%AA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1921-07-24"
deathDate: "2015-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.700938666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7019992/"
    handle:    "nm7019992"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/911575"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Kh%C3%AA"
    title: "Trần Văn Khê"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%87"
    title: "تران وانکه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Kh%C3%AA"
    title: "Trần Văn Khê"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%BF%D5%B0%D5%A5"
    title: "Չան Վան Կհե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D1%85%D0%B5"
    title: "Чан Ван Кхе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Kh%C3%AA"
    title: "Trần Văn Khê"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6800e97f-5a6e-4462-a72c-52d45b36a9ac"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3541430"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1069545"
    title: "Tran Van Khe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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