# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-oswald
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:24:34.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-oswald"
name: "John Oswald"
slug: "john-oswald"
description: "John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. He is best known for coining the term \"plunderphonics\", the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings."
tagline: "Canadian composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JOsw1088.png?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: "1953-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.377145333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652638/"
    handle:    "nm0652638"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.6q.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/26997"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "جون أوزوالد (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "جون اوزوالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oswald"
    title: "John Oswald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oswald"
    title: "John Oswald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oswald_(composer)"
    title: "John Oswald (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oswald_(compositeur)"
    title: "John Oswald (compositeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oswald_(compositore)"
    title: "John Oswald (compositore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3eff6744-25d0-4b85-880d-0d3c1f955fb3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1650807"
    title: "John Oswald"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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