# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-riel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:38:08.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-riel"
name: "Alex Riel"
slug: "alex-riel"
description: "Alex Riel was a Danish jazz and rock drummer. His first group, the Alex Riel/Palle Mikkelborg Quintet, won the Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968. He was married to the writer Ane Riel."
tagline: "Danish musician (1940–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Riel_photo_by_Gorm_Valentin_A1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-09-13"
deathDate: "2024-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.53
  momentum:             6.964285714285715
  historical:           8.142657333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/100062987240790"
    handle:    "100062987240790"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1675416/"
    handle:    "nm1675416"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0kPEyoVCAET0GwNPmjmpyH"
    handle:    "0kPEyoVCAET0GwNPmjmpyH"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alexriel.dk"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/323935"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Riel"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a936f26-3d71-4309-a954-c86b972d2241"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1374501"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3622472"
    title: "Alex Riel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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