# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernie-krause
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:53:13.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernie-krause"
name: "Bernie Krause"
slug: "bernie-krause"
description: "Bernard L. Krause is an American musician and soundscape ecologist. In 1968, he founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Krause is an author, a bio-acoustician, a speaker, and natural sound artist who coined the terms geophony, biophony, and anthropophony."
tagline: "American musician, author, soundscape recordist and bio-acoustician (*1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bernie_Krause_(8734312024).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: "1938-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.710802666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470177/"
    handle:    "nm0470177"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/413568"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "بيرني كراوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause"
    title: "Bernie Krause"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause"
    title: "Bernie Krause"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause"
    title: "Bernie Krause"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "برنی کراوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause"
    title: "Bernie Krause"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/830e0a49-f837-49ee-a879-79ad341cedc2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2899063"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2494478"
    title: "Bernie Krause"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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