# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-mcphee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:17.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-mcphee"
name: "Colin McPhee"
slug: "colin-mcphee"
description: "Colin Carhart McPhee was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali, and to develop American gamelan along with fellow composer Lou Harrison. He wrote original music influenced by that of Bali and Java, decades before compositions based on world music became widespread."
tagline: "Canadian composer and musicologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_McPhee.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1900-03-15"
deathDate: "1964-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8851674641148327
  historical:           13.81638
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2537335"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump