# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cliff-martinez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:28:10.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cliff-martinez"
name: "Cliff Martinez"
slug: "cliff-martinez"
description: "Cliff Robert Martinez is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers (2012), The Foreigner (2017), and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Solaris (2002), Contagion (2011) and Traffic (2000) and Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), The Neon Demon (2016) and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young (2019)."
tagline: "American musician and composer, composer, drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cliff_Martinez_(cropped).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: "1954-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.09157466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553498/"
    handle:    "nm0553498"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://cliff-martinez.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Cliff Martinez"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cliff Martinez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cliff Martinez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Cliff Martinez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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