# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aaron-dessner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:44:26.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aaron-dessner"
name: "Aaron Dessner"
slug: "aaron-dessner"
description: "Aaron Brooking Dessner is an American musician. He is best known as a founding member of the rock band the National, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums; a co-founder of the indie rock duo Big Red Machine, teaming with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon; and a collaborator on Taylor Swift's critically acclaimed studio albums Folklore and Evermore, both of which contended for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2021 and 2022, respectively, with the former winning the accolade; as well as The Tortured Poets Department (2024)."
tagline: "American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aaron_Dessner_at_Way_Out_West_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1976-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump