# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-zorn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:44:08.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-zorn"
name: "John Zorn"
slug: "john-zorn"
description: "John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, producer, arranger and saxophonist who \"deliberately resists category\". Zorn's avant-garde compositions and experimental improvisations meld jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, Jewish and world music performed by \"often unexpected groups of players.. getting startling, unrepeatable results\". Rolling Stone noted that \"[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time\"."
tagline: "American composer, saxophonist and bandleader"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Zorn%2C_Newport_Jazz_Festival_2014.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: "1953-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.046652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ioannes Zorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump