# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mclaughlin-q164757
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:16.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mclaughlin-q164757"
name: "John McLaughlin"
slug: "john-mclaughlin-q164757"
description: "John McLaughlin, also previously known as Mahavishnu, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues.\nAfter contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with drummer Tony Williams' group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his 1969–72 electric jazz fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Live-Evil, and On the Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Classical, Indian and other influences. In 1974, he helped found Shakti, a seminal Indian-Jazz rock fusion band with Indian violinist L. Shankar and percussionists Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram."
tagline: "English guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_McLaughlin_in_the_Mir_Gitary_festival_(retouched_1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump