# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/floating-points
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:03:52.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/floating-points"
name: "Floating Points"
slug: "floating-points"
description: "Samuel Thomas Shepherd, known professionally as Floating Points, is a British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician. He is the founder of Pluto Records, co-founder of Eglo Records and leader of a 16-piece group called Floating Points Ensemble."
tagline: "British musician and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Floating_Points_(2011).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1986"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.24
  momentum:             6.504950495049504
  historical:           9.780612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 65100
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/floatingpoints"
    handle:    "floatingpoints"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/floatingpoints/"
    handle:    "floatingpoints"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.floatingpoints.co.uk/"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/floatingpoints"
    handle:    "floatingpoints"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8262567/"
    handle:    "nm8262567"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2AR42Ur9PcchQDtEdwkv4L"
    handle:    "Floating Points"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NbPNPbdLwAPPwWTJw0EbQ"
    handle:    "@floatingpointsmusic"
    followers: 65100
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Points"
    title: "Floating Points"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Points"
    title: "Floating Points"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Points"
    title: "Floating Points"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Points"
    title: "Floating Points"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Points"
    title: "Floating Points"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84"
    title: "フローティング・ポインツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%8C%EB%A1%9C%ED%8C%85_%ED%8F%AC%EC%9D%B8%EC%B8%A0"
    title: "플로팅 포인츠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Points"
    title: "Floating Points"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/69d9c5ba-7bba-4cb7-ab32-8ccc48ad4f97"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22277802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3066114"
    title: "Sam Shepherd"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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