# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bunk-gardner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:52:02.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bunk-gardner"
name: "Bunk Gardner"
slug: "bunk-gardner"
description: "Bunk Gardner is an American musician who most notably played for the original version of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention until the group disbanded in 1969. He plays woodwinds and tenor sax. His older brother, Buzz, was also in the Mothers of Invention."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Grandmothers_(former_Frank_Zappa's_Mothers_of_invention).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: "1933-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.74
  momentum:             1.465648854961832
  historical:           9.054072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0306852/"
    handle:    "nm0306852"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/290331"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Gardner"
    title: "Bunk Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Gardner"
    title: "Bunk Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Gardner"
    title: "Bunk Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Gardner"
    title: "Bunk Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D4%BC%D5%A5%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D4%B3%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80"
    title: "Ջոն Լեոն Գարդներ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Gardner"
    title: "Bunk Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk_Gardner"
    title: "Bunk Gardner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Банк Гарднер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%A9_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "بنک گارڈنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/efa656ce-d16d-497d-b47f-dcb0ad03c7d0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1009499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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