# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-birdsong
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:15.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-birdsong"
name: "Edwin Birdsong"
slug: "edwin-birdsong"
description: "Edwin L. Birdsong was an American keyboardist and organist, known in the 1970s and 1980s for his experimental funk/disco music. Birdsong did not achieve much chart success, but developed a strong fan base. Birdsong has also been sampled by other artists many times, most famously by Daft Punk who sampled \"Cola Bottle Baby\" in \"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger\", and Gang Starr who sampled his single \"Rapper Dapper Snapper\" for their song \"Skills\"."
tagline: "American keyboardist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EdwinBirdsong.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: "1941-08-22"
deathDate: "2019-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.909074666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2472691/"
    handle:    "nm2472691"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ادوين بيردسونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Birdsong"
    title: "Edwin Birdsong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Birdsong"
    title: "Edwin Birdsong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Birdsong"
    title: "Edwin Birdsong"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Birdsong"
    title: "Edwin Birdsong"
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    title: "埃德温·伯德松"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump