# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arif-mardin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:18:29.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arif-mardin"
name: "Arif Mardin"
slug: "arif-mardin"
description: "Mehmet Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records."
tagline: "Turkish-American record producer (1932–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arif_Mardin_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-03-15"
deathDate: "2006-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.16596533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546300/"
    handle:    "nm0546300"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3EOX6d6CuTUiS1PGJfHEzU"
    handle:    "3EOX6d6CuTUiS1PGJfHEzU"
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    title: "Arif Mardin"
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    title: "Аріф Мардін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Arif Mardin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump