# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-righton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:39.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-righton"
name: "James Righton"
slug: "james-righton"
description: "James Nicholas Righton is an English musician and composer for film and television. He was the keyboard-player and co-lead vocalist of the London-based new rave band Klaxons, which disbanded in 2015. In March 2016, Righton announced his new project Shock Machine with a video directed by Saam Farahmand. Righton released his first solo album The Performer on Soulwax's Deewee label in March 2020."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Righton_off_Klaxons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1983-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://shock-machine.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump