# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-janicek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:13:45.472Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-janicek"
name: "Josef Janíček"
slug: "josef-janicek"
description: "Josef Janíček is a Czech rock keyboardist, singer, accordion and guitar player. He was a former guitarist of The Primitives Group; from 1969 he played with The Plastic People of the Universe. He was also a member of Milan Hlavsa's band called Půlnoc. Since 1990, he is a member of The Velvet Underground Revival Band."
tagline: "Czech musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plastic_People_of_the_Universe_(2010)_-_Josef_Jan%C3%AD%C4%8Dek.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.54
  momentum:             2.708333333333333
  historical:           6.202196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/pepa.janicek"
    handle:    "pepa.janicek"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418445/"
    handle:    "nm0418445"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/748044"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "چوزيف چانيسيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jan%C3%AD%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Josef Janíček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jan%C3%AD%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Josef Janíček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jan%C3%AD%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Josef Janíček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Josef_Jan%C3%AD%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba2f5d1f-a9ec-4a5a-b12e-7ca1945f313c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6279886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1744707"
    title: "Josef Janíček"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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