# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/glenn-branca
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:12.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/glenn-branca"
name: "Glenn Branca"
slug: "glenn-branca"
description: "Glenn Branca was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award."
tagline: "American composer and guitarist (1948-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Glenn_Branca_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-10-06"
deathDate: "2018-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump