# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-lewan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:16:44.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-lewan"
name: "Jan Lewan"
slug: "jan-lewan"
description: "Jan Lewandowski known professionally as Jan Lewan, is a Polish-American songwriter and polka band leader. The Grammy Award-nominated musician was convicted of fraud charges in 2004, for financial crimes described by The Morning Call as a \"classic Ponzi scheme\"."
tagline: "Polish-American polka musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_King_of_Polka_-_Sundance_Festival_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.264733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2094043"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lewan"
    title: "Jan Lewan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lewan"
    title: "Jan Lewan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%BC%D6%87%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Յան Լևան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lewan"
    title: "Jan Lewan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lewan"
    title: "Jan Lewan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d2abe131-2b3e-4993-b908-18c62da22275"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47325702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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