# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alec-wilder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:08.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alec-wilder"
name: "Alec Wilder"
slug: "alec-wilder"
description: "Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder  was an American composer, author, and radio host. Considered one of the most inventive and lyrical American composers, he wrote thousands of pieces of music across various genres, including American popular song and classical music. Though his musical compositions were not always widely known during his lifetime, he became a notable figure in musical history for his 1972 book, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, which is widely regarded as a definitive work on the subject. He also hosted a Peabody Award-winning radio series, American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends, on National Public Radio (NPR) in the mid-1970s."
tagline: "American composer, lyricist (1907-1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Alexander_Lafayette_Chew_Wilder.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1907-02-16"
deathDate: "1980-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.55
  momentum:             2.887442741652933
  historical:           8.563429333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928546/"
    handle:    "nm0928546"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إليك وايلدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اليك وايلدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Wilder"
    title: "Alec Wilder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Wilder"
    title: "Alec Wilder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Wilder"
    title: "Alec Wilder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC"
    title: "アレック・ワイルダー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Wilder"
    title: "Alec Wilder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/18fdc296-87c6-4b2b-91f0-5039f0651912"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1040177"
    title: "Alec Wilder"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump