# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-benoit
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:07.782Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-benoit"
name: "David Benoit"
slug: "david-benoit"
description: "David Bryan Benoit is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Benoit has charted over 25 albums since 1980, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. He is also music director for the Pacific Vision Youth Symphony and the Asia America Youth Orchestra. Furthermore, crediting Vince Guaraldi as an inspiration, Benoit has participated both as performer and music director for the later animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip, such as the feature film, The Peanuts Movie, restoring Guaraldi's musical signature to the franchise."
tagline: "American jazz pianist, composer and producer (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Benoit.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: "1953-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1740506329113924
  historical:           13.42592533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/dbmusic"
    handle:    "dbmusic"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "davidbenoitmusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072241/"
    handle:    "nm0072241"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "1OLWM7nUNcTjZ9ct4DEPZu"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.benoit.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دايفيد بنوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "دايفيد بنوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit"
    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit_(Musiker)"
    title: "David Benoit (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit"
    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "David Benoit (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit"
    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit_(musicista)"
    title: "David Benoit (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "데이비드 베누아"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit"
    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit"
    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benoit"
    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q405208"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "David Benoit"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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