# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yared
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:24.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yared"
name: "Yared"
slug: "yared"
description: "Saint Yared was an Aksumite composer, hymnwriter and scholar. He was credited with inventing the traditional music of Ethiopia, he developed the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church. In a broader context, he helped establish liturgical music in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church, as well as create the Ethiopian musical notation system. Additionally, he composed Zema, or the chant tradition of Ethiopia, particularly the chants of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, which are still performed today."
tagline: "Ethiopian church musician, music theoretician, priest and saint of the orthodox Ethiopian church at the time of the Kingdom of Aksum"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yared.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "0505-04-25"
deathDate: "0571-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.845792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared"
    title: "Yared"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%85%E1%8B%B1%E1%88%B5_%E1%8B%AB%E1%88%AC%E1%8B%B5"
    title: "ቅዱስ ያሬድ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "القديس يارد الاثيوبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_(Musiker)"
    title: "Yared (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared"
    title: "Yared"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared"
    title: "Yared"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared"
    title: "Yared"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%93_(%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9F)"
    title: "ירד (מלחין)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_(komponis)"
    title: "Yared (komponis)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarede_(santo)"
    title: "Jarede (santo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B9)"
    title: "Яред (святой)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yared_wa_Ethiopia"
    title: "Yared wa Ethiopia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82)"
    title: "Яред (музикант)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "یارید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2894973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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