# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-hammer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:11:33.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-hammer"
name: "Jan Hammer"
slug: "jan-hammer"
description: "Jan Hammer is a Czech-American musician, composer, and record producer. He rose to prominence while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the early 1970s, as well as with his film scores for television and film including \"Miami Vice Theme\" and \"Crockett's Theme\", from the 1980s television program Miami Vice. He has continued to work as both a musical performer and producer."
tagline: "Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Hammer_2_-_1977.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.77
  momentum:             0.4539202200825309
  historical:           22.99694133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 36500
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJanHammer"
    handle:    "OfficialJanHammer"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006122/"
    handle:    "nm0006122"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/50zRydJXfkLzGIOj9mITfy"
    handle:    "50zRydJXfkLzGIOj9mITfy"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.janhammer.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtb1SfrMvGayeYGQdf-PWhg"
    handle:    "@officialjanhammer"
    followers: 36500
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "يان هامر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يان هامر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یان همر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Hammer"
    title: "Yan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Γιαν Χάμερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "یان همر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8"
    title: "יאן האמר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ヤン・ハマー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "얀 해머"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Јан Хамер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hammer"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/49afd610-0265-4ab1-9e13-f0cc98e33e1d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366671"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/45528"
    title: "Jan Hammer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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