# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-schneider
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:39.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-schneider"
name: "Fred Schneider"
slug: "fred-schneider"
description: "Frederick William Schneider III is an American singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock band the B-52s, of which he is a founding member. Schneider is well known for his sprechgesang, which he developed from reciting poetry over guitars."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Schneider_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.78556419803148
  historical:           18.38662133333334
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "FredSchneider3"
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    handle:    "OfficialFredSchneider"
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    title: "Fred Schneider"
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    title: "Fred Schneider"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump