# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-folds
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:08:12.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-folds"
name: "Ben Folds"
slug: "ben-folds"
description: "Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter. After playing in several small independent bands from the late 1980s through the early '90s, Folds came to prominence as the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again during their reunion from 2011 to 2013. Folds has recorded a number of solo albums, most recently Sleigher (2024). He has also collaborated with musicians such as Regina Spektor, \"Weird Al\" Yankovic and yMusic, and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Folds was the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from 2017 until 2025."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Folds_%40_The_Wiltern_08_16_2023_(53407634095).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: "1966-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           66.17
  momentum:             0.9422936449963478
  historical:           19.516776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1400
platforms:
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    handle:    "BenFolds"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/murkanpianist/"
    handle:    "murkanpianist"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BenFolds"
    handle:    "BenFolds"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "Ben Folds Five - Topic"
    followers: 1400
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ben Folds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Folds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Folds"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Folds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Folds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump