# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jandek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:17:09.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jandek"
name: "Jandek"
slug: "jandek"
description: "Jandek is the musical project of Sterling Smith, a Houston, Texas-based American lo-fi folk singer. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 120 albums while granting an interview extremely rarely and providing no biographical information, releasing on a self-made label, \"Corwood Industries\". Jandek often plays an idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, frequently using an open and unconventional chord structure. AllMusic has described Jandek as \"the most enigmatic figure in American music.\""
tagline: "American musician (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jandek_June2007.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: "1944-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.734028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3VFQDTjBkey4UCrrmnreLu"
    handle:    "Jandek"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/317238"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "چانديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ジャンデック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek"
    title: "Jandek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/61a21fb6-ca24-4e7c-bb72-34a716be1cbb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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