# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-dagenais
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:34.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-dagenais"
name: "Jean-François Dagenais"
slug: "jean-francois-dagenais"
description: "Jean-François Dagenais is a Juno Award winner, French-Canadian record producer, mix engineer, guitarist and songwriter specializing in the rock and metal genres. Born and raised in Canada, Dagenais is now a naturalized citizen of the United States living in Dallas, Texas. He is best known as guitarist for the death metal band Kataklysm and for producing and mixing many heavy metal albums and its subgenres."
tagline: "Canadian record producer and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Francois_Dagenais_Live.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1975-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.16
  momentum:             4.565217391304349
  historical:           6.808856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JFDagenaisOfficial"
    handle:    "JFDagenaisOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2829504/"
    handle:    "nm2829504"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/273788"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "جان فرانسوا داغينيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "جان فرانسوا داجينيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Francois_Dagenais"
    title: "Jean-Francois Dagenais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Dagenais"
    title: "Jean-François Dagenais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%87"
    title: "ژان-فرانسوا داجنه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Dagenais"
    title: "Jean-François Dagenais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11723657"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1066302"
    title: "Jean-Francois Dagenais"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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