# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doc-mckinney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:18.317Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doc-mckinney"
name: "Doc McKinney"
slug: "doc-mckinney"
description: "Martin \"Doc\" McKinney is a Canadian-American record producer and songwriter. He was formerly one half of the duo Esthero. McKinney is widely credited with developing The Weeknd's sound as well as producing his mixtapes House of Balloons and Thursday; and executive producing and producing the majority of his third album Starboy (2016), which earned McKinney the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album."
tagline: "Canadian-American record producer (born 1971)"
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: "1971-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.8522
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1991279/"
    handle:    "nm1991279"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f15651b5-67ab-43f5-8bb6-5a1138759e9e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "دوك ماكيني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "دوك ماكينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_McKinney"
    title: "Doc McKinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_McKinney"
    title: "Doc McKinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_McKinney"
    title: "Doc McKinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_McKinney"
    title: "Doc McKinney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5287092"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3245868"
    title: "Doc McKinney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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