# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-saunders
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:47:46.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-saunders"
name: "Fernando Saunders"
slug: "fernando-saunders"
description: "Fernando Saunders is an American musician, singer and record producer from Detroit, Michigan. He is perhaps best known for his longtime partnership with rock musician Lou Reed, from 1982 to 1987 and again from 1996 to 2008."
tagline: "American musician"
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: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.308606666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.fernandosaunders.net"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/267642"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "فرناندو سوندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "فرناندو سوندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "فرناندو سوندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Saunders"
    title: "Fernando Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Saunders"
    title: "Fernando Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Saunders"
    title: "Fernando Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Saunders"
    title: "Fernando Saunders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/639b7de5-b412-4f79-9e08-7abd0b0d4267"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3503866"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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