# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-verheyen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:13:40.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-verheyen"
name: "Carl Verheyen"
slug: "carl-verheyen"
description: "Carl William Verheyen is an American musician best known for being the guitarist of Supertramp, the leader of the Carl Verheyen Band, and as a Los Angeles session guitarist. He was ranked One of the World's Top 10 Guitarists by Guitar Magazine and won the LA Music Awards category of Best Guitarist at their 6th annual awards ceremony. He has recorded with such artists as The Bee Gees, Chad Wackerman, Dolly Parton, Victor Feldman, Richard Elliot, and Stanley Clarke and has played guitar on film soundtracks including The Crow, The Usual Suspects, Ratatouille, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and TV shows Cheers, Seinfeld, and Scrubs."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20131116-220042-700_Carl_Verheyen_Band_Paradox_Tilburg.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: "1954-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             4.495535714285714
  historical:           8.186217333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894177/"
    handle:    "nm0894177"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.carlverheyen.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/423943"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كارل ڤيرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Verheyen"
    title: "Carl Verheyen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Verheyen"
    title: "Carl Verheyen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Verheyen"
    title: "Carl Verheyen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3"
    title: "カール・ヴァーヘイエン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Verheyen"
    title: "Carl Verheyen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Verheyen"
    title: "Carl Verheyen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/904ed1e9-4e2c-4d26-a819-3f138fec16ad"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5040905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2000208"
    title: "Carl Verheyen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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