# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-wasser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:19:30.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-wasser"
name: "Joan Wasser"
slug: "joan-wasser"
description: "Joan Wasser is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer who releases music as Joan As Police Woman. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders and played with Black Beetle, Antony and the Johnsons, and Those Bastard Souls. Since 2004 she has released her solo material as Joan As Police Woman. She has released five regular studio albums, one extended play (EP), a number of singles and two albums of cover songs. Throughout her career, she has regularly collaborated with other artists as a writer, performer and arranger."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Wasser.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1970-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.79
  momentum:             15
  historical:           14.025756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3539011/"
    handle:    "nm3539011"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6xnHSwI8XNVUxxlO9IYFFC"
    handle:    "6xnHSwI8XNVUxxlO9IYFFC"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joanaspolicewoman.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/268660"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چوان واسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "جوان واسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wasser"
    title: "Joan Wasser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_As_Police_Woman"
    title: "Joan As Police Woman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_as_Police_Woman"
    title: "Joan as Police Woman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_As_Police_Woman"
    title: "Joan As Police Woman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_As_Police_Woman"
    title: "Joan As Police Woman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "جوآن واسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wasser"
    title: "Joan Wasser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_as_Police_Woman"
    title: "Joan as Police Woman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%95%A4_%EC%95%A0%EC%A6%88_%ED%8F%B4%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%EC%9A%B0%EB%A8%BC"
    title: "조앤 애즈 폴리스 우먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_As_Police_Woman"
    title: "Joan As Police Woman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wasser"
    title: "Joan Wasser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "جوان ایز پولیس وومن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0f416a55-d57d-42c1-a6c3-747c98c42f05"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447338"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1316827"
    title: "Joan Wasser"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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