# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/captain-beefheart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:40:24.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/captain-beefheart"
name: "Captain Beefheart"
slug: "captain-beefheart"
description: "Don Van Vliet, known by his stage name Captain Beefheart, was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist. Conducting a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, and Vliet's gravelly singing voice with a wide vocal range."
tagline: "American musician and painter (1941-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Van_Vliet_and_Gary_Lucas%2C_'Doc_at_the_Radar_Station'_sessions_(May_1980).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: "1941-01-15"
deathDate: "2010-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.13348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1182889/"
    handle:    "nm1182889"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ebK4ueGwhVaXUm060m1BS"
    handle:    "2ebK4ueGwhVaXUm060m1BS"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.beefheart.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كابتن بيفهارت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاپتاين بيفهيارت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کاپیتان بیف‌هارت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ντον Βαν Βλιτ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קפטן ביפהארט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Captain Beefheart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "キャプテン・ビーフハート"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%A1%ED%8B%B4_%EB%B9%84%ED%94%84%ED%95%98%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "캡틴 비프하트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a1594afa-2f6b-4596-a156-a35853dca691"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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