# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/holger-czukay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:01:59.539Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/holger-czukay"
name: "Holger Czukay"
slug: "holger-czukay"
description: "Holger Schüring, known professionally as Holger Czukay, was a German musician who co-founded the krautrock group Can. Described as \"successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde\", Czukay also created early important examples of ambient music, explored \"world music\" well before the term was coined, and was a pioneer of sampling."
tagline: "German bass-guitarist and co-founder of \"Can\" (1938-2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Holger_Czukay_1973.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-03-24"
deathDate: "2017-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.343332892824105
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1113757"
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    url:       "http://www.czukay.de"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump