# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-kaylan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:19:01.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-kaylan"
name: "Howard Kaylan"
slug: "howard-kaylan"
description: "Howard Kaylan is an American retired musician and songwriter, who was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s rock band The Turtles, and, with bandmate and friend Mark Volman, a member of the 1970s rock duo Flo & Eddie, where he used the pseudonym Eddie. He also was a member of Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Kaylan.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: "1947-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.11
  momentum:             5.56967437378654
  historical:           13.29797733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443433/"
    handle:    "nm0443433"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.howardkaylan.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هوارد كايلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ھاوارد کایلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Кэйлан, Ховард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/55e5ab16-6fb3-43f3-b5fb-54e27473027c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631844"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/98550"
    title: "Howard Kaylan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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