# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-hykes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:18:50.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-hykes"
name: "David Hykes"
slug: "david-hykes"
description: "David Hykes is an American composer, singer, musician, author, and meditation teacher. He was one of the earliest modern western pioneers of overtone singing, and since 1975 has developed a comprehensive approach to contemplative music which he calls Harmonic Chant. After early research and trips studying Mongolian, Tibetan, and Middle Eastern singing forms, Hykes began a long series of collaborations with traditions and teachers of wisdom and sacred art, including the Dalai Lama and monks of the Gyume and Gyuto Orders."
tagline: "American music therapist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Hykes_08_03_2010_Delhi_01.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: "1953-03-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.67
  momentum:             2.903225806451613
  historical:           8.608928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1430
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0962745/"
    handle:    "nm0962745"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/79tir6LoUdtEwrzMyzdVWk"
    handle:    "David Hykes"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSyJUz_sLWc6nMX12ayyw9A"
    handle:    "David Hykes - Topic"
    followers: 1430
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديڤيد هيكيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hykes"
    title: "David Hykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hykes"
    title: "David Hykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hykes"
    title: "David Hykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hykes"
    title: "David Hykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hykes"
    title: "David Hykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "ڈیوڈ ہائیکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/23581798-f70f-4e96-a122-30f5976c6810"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q772003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "David Hykes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump