# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-callahan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:14.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-callahan"
name: "Bill Callahan"
slug: "bill-callahan"
description: "William Rahr Callahan is an American singer-songwriter, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four-track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1966-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oliver_Mark_-_Bill_Callahan%2C_Berlin_2011.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: "1966-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.07
  momentum:             12.08649468892261
  historical:           16.05151733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/bathyspheral"
    handle:    "bathyspheral"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130173/"
    handle:    "nm0130173"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7gqsi6aBSkRMJoL9psKqMr"
    handle:    "7gqsi6aBSkRMJoL9psKqMr"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيل كالاهان"
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    title: "بيل كالاهان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیل کالاهان (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Callahan_(musician)"
    title: "Bill Callahan (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Callahan (musikaria)"
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    title: "بیل کالاهان (موسیقی‌دان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Callahan (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Callahan_(musicista)"
    title: "Bill Callahan (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Билл Каллахан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Callahan"
    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Callahan"
    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Callahan"
    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/177464"
    title: "Bill Callahan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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