# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-parkening
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:03:09.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-parkening"
name: "Christopher Parkening"
slug: "christopher-parkening"
description: "Christopher William Parkening is an American classical guitarist. He holds the Chair of Classical Guitar at Pepperdine University under the title Distinguished Professor of Music."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christopher_Parkening_1975_USC_Bovard_Auditorium_MHW046.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: "1947-12-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.28
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.705654666666666
  currentAttention:     32.4
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662009/"
    handle:    "nm0662009"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.parkening.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "كريستوفر پاركينينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Parkening"
    title: "Christopher Parkening"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Parkening"
    title: "Christopher Parkening"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Parkening"
    title: "Christopher Parkening"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Parkening"
    title: "Christopher Parkening"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0"
    title: "クリストファー・パークニング"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e1581cde-4b30-4c60-9e4d-bf8518c1cd61"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4411049"
    title: "Christopher Parkening"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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