# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jake-kaufman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:26:55.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jake-kaufman"
name: "Jake Kaufman"
slug: "jake-kaufman"
description: "Jake Kaufman is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of Q*bert. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as the Shantae series, Contra 4, Red Faction: Guerrilla, DuckTales: Remastered, Shovel Knight, and Crypt of the Necrodancer."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JakeKaufman.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: "1981-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.55
  momentum:             17.77595029239766
  historical:           10.61683866666667
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/virtjk"
    handle:    "virtjk"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakekaufman/"
    handle:    "jakekaufman"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2523848/"
    handle:    "nm2523848"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "5RTA06B6cts3a6I7iMqKGu"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://virt.rocks/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جيك كوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيك كوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Kaufman"
    title: "Jake Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Kaufman"
    title: "Jake Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Kaufman"
    title: "Jake Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジェイク・カウフマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "제이크 카우프만"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jake Kaufman"
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    title: "Кауфман, Джейк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Jake Kaufman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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