# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hank-roberts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:21:22.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hank-roberts"
name: "Hank Roberts"
slug: "hank-roberts"
description: "Hank Roberts is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello, and his style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown New York City jazz scene of the 1980s and is associated with its post-modern tendencies."
tagline: "American cellist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roberts_hank_koeln_stadtgarten_100308.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: "1954-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.72
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.0063
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hankrobertsmusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/271691"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "هانك روبرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Roberts"
    title: "Hank Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Roberts"
    title: "Hank Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Roberts"
    title: "Hank Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Roberts"
    title: "Hank Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84"
    title: "ハンク・ロバーツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e5b5642c-7f6d-45df-825f-1f8bd7c16aec"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1575571"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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