# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dayna-stephens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:25:52.575Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dayna-stephens"
name: "Dayna Stephens"
slug: "dayna-stephens"
description: "Dayna Stephens is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. In addition to leading his own group, Stephens has performed extensively with Kenny Barron, Ambrose Akinmusire, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Eric Harland, and Gerald Clayton. Stephens grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Berkeley High School. He went on to study at the Berklee School of Music and later at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz."
tagline: "American jazz saxophonist and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dayna_Stephens_05.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: "1978-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.75
  momentum:             7.173913043478261
  historical:           6.343305333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/dayna.stephens"
    handle:    "dayna.stephens"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2362444"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "داينا ستيفنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayna_Stephens"
    title: "Dayna Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayna_Stephens"
    title: "Dayna Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayna_Stephens"
    title: "Dayna Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayna_Stephens"
    title: "Dayna Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/84ddd797-42eb-44b2-8051-bd642aa1b81b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16217642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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