# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-avakian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:13:38.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-avakian"
name: "George Avakian"
slug: "george-avakian"
description: "George Mesrop Avakian was an American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive. Best known for his work from 1939 to the early 1960s at Decca Records, Columbia Records, World Pacific Records, Warner Bros. Records, and RCA Records, he was a major force in the expansion and development of the U.S. recording industry. Avakian functioned as an independent producer and manager from the 1960s to the early 2000s and worked with artists such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Condon, Keith Jarrett, Erroll Garner, Buck Clayton, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond, Edith Piaf, Bob Newhart, Johnny Mathis, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Ravi Shankar, and many other notable jazz musicians and composers."
tagline: "American record producer of Armenian descent (1919–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Avakian_Hardrock_2Aug07.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: "1919-03-15"
deathDate: "2017-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             17.99415204678363
  historical:           15.17332933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042721/"
    handle:    "nm0042721"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چورچ ايڤاكيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A2%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%BB_%D4%B1%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Ջորջ Ավագյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8F%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Авакян, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian"
    title: "George Avakian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джордж Авакян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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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