# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virko-baley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:43:13.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virko-baley"
name: "Virko Baley"
slug: "virko-baley"
description: "Viroslav Petrovych Baley is a Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv in Poland, the only child of Petro (Peter) and Lydia Baley. Petro Baley was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and he and extended family were relocated to Slovakia. The family was reunited on a farm in Germany towards the end of the war to work as farm laborers, after which they relocated to Munich. From 1947 to 1949, the family lived in a displaced person's camp in Regensburg, Germany."
tagline: "Ukrainian American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Virko_baley_comptur_pic.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.95
  momentum:             1.196581196581197
  historical:           7.471382666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3282031/"
    handle:    "nm3282031"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.virkobaley.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/927698"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ڤيركو بالى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virko_Baley"
    title: "Virko Baley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ویرکو بلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virko_Baley"
    title: "Virko Baley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Балей, Вирко Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Балей Вірко Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virko_Baley"
    title: "Virko Baley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8d08d03f-2ef9-41ec-b721-6adbd6945c9e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934832"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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