# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tutu-puoane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:02:10.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tutu-puoane"
name: "Tutu Puoane"
slug: "tutu-puoane"
description: "Tutu Puoane is a South African Jazz singer. She grew up in the township of Mamelodi, Pretoria. By 1997 she had already been performing in Johannesburg downtown. Realizing her passion for singing, Tutu went on to study jazz vocals at the University of Cape Town with Jelena Reveshin and Virginia Davids. She received several awards from major South African jazz competitions. In 2000 she won the old mutual jazz encounters for Cape region and in 2001 she received a merit award for young promising talent at the Daimler Chrysler South African jazz competition."
tagline: "South African Jazz singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tutu_Puoane_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1979-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.807056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  236
  category: null
totalFollowers: 794
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tutupuoane/"
    handle:    "tutupuoane"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/tutupuoanemusic"
    handle:    "tutupuoanemusic"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3I5CBcpfValsWh6o5ciuWH"
    handle:    "3I5CBcpfValsWh6o5ciuWH"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tutupuoane.info/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIb_nWqhD2u6JPqEa8tg7zg"
    handle:    "Tutu Puoane - Topic"
    followers: 794
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3382624"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "توتو پوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutu_Puoane"
    title: "Tutu Puoane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutu_Puoane"
    title: "Tutu Puoane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutu_Puoane"
    title: "Tutu Puoane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutu_Puoane"
    title: "Tutu Puoane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutu_Puoane"
    title: "Tutu Puoane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d974e295-e3d8-4848-aeeb-e2ec9b553cf0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1869111"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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