# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benard-ighner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:56.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benard-ighner"
name: "Benard Ighner"
slug: "benard-ighner"
description: "Benard Ighner was an American jazz singer, musician, songwriter and record producer."
tagline: "American jazz songwriter, singer, and musician"
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: "1945-01-18"
deathDate: "2017-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             1.188118811881188
  historical:           6.61458
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/297999"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%86%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Бенард Ігнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benard_Ighner"
    title: "Benard Ighner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benard_Ighner"
    title: "Benard Ighner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benard_Ighner"
    title: "Benard Ighner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Игнер, Бенард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benard_Ighner"
    title: "Benard Ighner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3bd64105-4c3c-4f8d-bbe0-6d9959c7d07a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36882949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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