# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ann-powers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:33:44.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ann-powers"
name: "Ann Powers"
slug: "ann-powers"
description: "Ann K. Powers is an American writer and popular music critic. She is a music critic for NPR and a contributor at the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously chief pop critic. She has also written for other publications, such as The New York Times, Blender and The Village Voice. Powers is the author of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, a biography on the life of Joni Mitchell; Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America, a memoir; Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music, on eroticism in American pop music; and Piece by Piece, co-authored with Tori Amos."
tagline: "American writer and music critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pop_Conference_2017_-_Ann_Powers_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964-02-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.638016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/annkpowers"
    handle:    "annkpowers"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2313587/"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ann Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Powers"
    title: "Ann Powers"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Powers"
    title: "Ann Powers"
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    title: "Էնն Փաուերս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Powers"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12066347"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump