# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veljo-tormis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:05:04.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veljo-tormis"
name: "Veljo Tormis"
slug: "veljo-tormis"
description: "Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically."
tagline: "Estonian composer (1930–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Veljo_Tormis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-08-07"
deathDate: "2017-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.31
  momentum:             11.43070436165065
  historical:           22.842588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868113/"
    handle:    "nm0868113"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.veljotormis.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Veljo Tormis"
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    title: "Veljo Tormis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Veljo Tormis"
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    title: "Тормис, Вельо Рихович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Veljo Tormis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Veljo Tormis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veljo_Tormis"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump