# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bert-kaempfert
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:22:55.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bert-kaempfert"
name: "Bert Kaempfert"
slug: "bert-kaempfert"
description: "Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-orientated records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including \"Strangers in the Night\", \"Danke Schoen\", \"Moon over Naples\" and \"A Swingin' Safari\". In 1961, Kaempfert was the first to produce professional music recordings by the Beatles."
tagline: "German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger and composer (1923-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bert_Kaempfert.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1923-10-16"
deathDate: "1980-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.kaempfert.de/en/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump