# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-underwood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:43:41.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-underwood"
name: "Ian Underwood"
slug: "ian-underwood"
description: "Ian Robertson Underwood is a woodwind and keyboard player, who was a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band the Mothers of Invention. Following the original band's split in late 1969, Underwood continued to work with Zappa extensively during the 1970s."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Ianunderwood.png/330px-Ianunderwood.png"
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: "1939-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.24212533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0881005"
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    title: "Ian Underwood"
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    title: "Ian Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ian Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ian Underwood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Underwood"
    title: "Ian Underwood"
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    title: "Ian Underwood"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump