# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-becker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:22:46.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-becker"
name: "Bob Becker"
slug: "bob-becker"
description: "Bob Becker is an American percussionist and composer known primarily as a founding member of the Nexus percussion ensemble, as well as a performer in the Steve Reich and Musicians ensemble. He primarily performs as a keyboard percussionist, but is also skilled in tabla and concert snare drumming. As a composer, Becker employs a multicultural approach by mixing the style of western military drumming with North Indian Hindustani idioms, such as raga scale patterns and tabla drumming. This fusion of compositional practices is the main focus of works like Lahara and Mudra. There are also traces of influence from the music of minimalists like Steve Reich, which can be attributed to Becker's experience with that composer's music."
tagline: "American composer and percussionist"
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: "1947-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             4.6875
  historical:           7.005544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/274691"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "بوب بيكر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "بوب بيكر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Becker"
    title: "Bob Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Becker_(composer)"
    title: "Bob Becker (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Becker"
    title: "Robert Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Беккер, Боб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fad46f54-baf0-4236-9666-35f35cb31320"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3434535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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