# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-queen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:02:34.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvin-queen"
name: "Alvin Queen"
slug: "alvin-queen"
description: "Alvin Queen is an American-born Swiss jazz drummer born in the Bronx, New York, on August 16, 1950. At 16, he played for Ruth Brown and Don Pullen and with the Wild Bill Davis trio. He played with trombonist Benny Green and guitarist Tiny Grimes in 1969 and replaced Billy Cobham in the Horace Silver quintet. He also played with the George Benson quartet before rejoining Charles Tolliver in November 1971. During the seventies, he lived in Canada, before settling in Switzerland in 1979 and creating the label Nilva, an anagram of his first name."
tagline: "American drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alvin_Queen_Dachau_2001_022.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1950-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.42
  momentum:             9.81
  historical:           7.679050666666666
  currentAttention:     4.24
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "آلفين كوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "آلفين كوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Queen"
    title: "Alvin Queen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Queen"
    title: "Alvin Queen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Queen"
    title: "Alvin Queen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Queen"
    title: "Alvin Queen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Queen"
    title: "Alvin Queen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0c334542-acc8-40ed-a827-6fc2ba029b59"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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