# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-van-hove
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:00.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-van-hove"
name: "Fred Van Hove"
slug: "fred-van-hove"
description: "Fred Van Hove was a Belgian jazz musician and a pioneer of European free jazz. He was a pianist, accordionist, church organist, and carillonist, an improviser and a composer. In the 1960s and 1970s he performed with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and drummer Han Bennink."
tagline: "Belgian musician (1937–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_van_Hove.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-02-19"
deathDate: "2022-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.93916533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067829/"
    handle:    "nm1067829"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "فريد ڤان هوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%87"
    title: "فرد فان هوفه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95"
    title: "フレッド・ヴァン・ホーフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Hove"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eb9b18b1-b847-4da2-abba-011b1c8a04ab"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332197"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1813388"
    title: "Fred Van Hove"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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