# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cuong-vu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:39:27.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cuong-vu"
name: "Cường Vũ"
slug: "cuong-vu"
description: "Cuong Vu is a Vietnamese-American jazz trumpeter. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Vu was a member of the Pat Metheny Group. He is the first American person of Vietnamese descent to win a Grammy Award. He won the Best Contemporary Jazz Album award twice through his work with the band. He is currently associate professor and chair of jazz studies at the University of Washington."
tagline: "Vietnamese-American jazz musician and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cuong-vu01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1969-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             0.6554307116104869
  historical:           10.28715066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cuongvu.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/314823"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%DA%A4%D9%88"
    title: "كونج ڤو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong_Vu"
    title: "Cuong Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong_Vu"
    title: "Cuong Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong_Vu"
    title: "Cuong Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng_V%C5%A9"
    title: "Cường Vũ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%83%BC"
    title: "クオン・ヴー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong_Vu"
    title: "Cuong Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong_Vu"
    title: "Cuong Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuong_Vu"
    title: "Cuong Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng_V%C5%A9"
    title: "Cường Vũ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/622573f9-eb5f-418b-a8fe-85cc1e947797"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1144138"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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