# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-haner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:23:42.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-haner"
name: "Brian Haner"
slug: "brian-haner"
description: "Brian Elwin Haner Sr., also known as Guitar Guy or Papa Gates, is an American musician, comedian, and author. Haner is known for touring with fellow stand-up comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, as in the 2008 Christmas program, Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special. He is also a noted session musician for Avenged Sevenfold, which his son, Brian Haner Jr., is the lead guitarist."
tagline: "American 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: "1958-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.900548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brianhaner.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/388584"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بريان هانير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haner"
    title: "Brian Haner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haner"
    title: "Brian Haner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haner"
    title: "Brian Haner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haner"
    title: "Brian Haner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haner"
    title: "Brian Haner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0d4abdfe-9646-4118-837c-b48641dada7a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704060"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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