# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/umit-besen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:53.338Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/umit-besen"
name: "Ümit Besen"
slug: "umit-besen"
description: "Ümit Besen is a Turkish musical artist. He started his professional career by playing keyboards and singing with his band at the local clubs in Adana, Southern Turkey. While he was in the army for his compulsory military service, a brigadier-general liked his style and appointed him to sing at the officers' mess."
tagline: "Turkish singer (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%9Cmit_Besen_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.21
  momentum:             3.048780487804878
  historical:           6.648996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/umitbesen"
    handle:    "umitbesen"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/umit.besen/"
    handle:    "umit.besen"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/UmitBesenResmi"
    handle:    "UmitBesenResmi"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4626677/"
    handle:    "nm4626677"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Cusk8DpjH8r3BDvuN3ufo"
    handle:    "2Cusk8DpjH8r3BDvuN3ufo"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3063639"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اميت بيسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cmid_B%C9%99s%C9%99n"
    title: "Ümid Bəsən"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cmit_Besen"
    title: "Ümit Besen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cmit_Besen"
    title: "Ümit Besen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cmit_Besen"
    title: "Ümit Besen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6d8fcd3d-32a2-408e-b73d-e39bae0aac06"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334814"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2030226"
    title: "Ümit Besen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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