# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danny-elfman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:18:32.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danny-elfman"
name: "Danny Elfman"
slug: "danny-elfman"
description: "Daniel Robert Elfman is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall."
tagline: "American composer and musician (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20220610_dannyelfman_by_sachynmital_(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: "1953-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.291541377957903
  historical:           27.721968
  currentAttention:     1.325188081626832
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 187000
platforms:
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    handle:    "dannyelfman"
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    handle:    "@dannyelfman"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Danny Elfman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump