# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/halim-el-dabh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:59:14.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/halim-el-dabh"
name: "Halim El-Dabh"
slug: "halim-el-dabh"
description: "Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music, or musique concrète. From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center."
tagline: "American composer (1921-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Halim_El-Dabh2.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: "1921-03-04"
deathDate: "2017-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.708185053380783
  historical:           12.11429466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1971680/"
    handle:    "nm1971680"
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    title: "Halim El-Dabh"
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    title: "Halim El-Dabh"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump