# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chad-wackerman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:27:18.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chad-wackerman"
name: "Chad Wackerman"
slug: "chad-wackerman"
description: "Chad Wackerman is an American jazz, jazz fusion and rock drummer, who has played with Frank Zappa and Allan Holdsworth. He has worked as a band member, session musician, sideman, and bandleader. He is the older brother of drummers John Wackerman and Brooks Wackerman, and the father of singer and songwriter Sophia James."
tagline: "American drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Hague_Jazz_Festival_2007.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: "1960-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7008817544652951
  historical:           12.23705466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "chadwackerman"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/chadwackerman"
    handle:    "chadwackerman"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0905223"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chadwackerman.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تشاد واكرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Wackerman"
    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Wackerman"
    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Wackerman"
    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Wackerman"
    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Wackerman"
    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chad Wackerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chad Wackerman"
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    title: "チャド・ワッカーマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump