# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karim-ziad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:06:21.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karim-ziad"
name: "Karim Ziad"
slug: "karim-ziad"
description: "Karim Ziad is an Algerian musician. A percussionist, drummer, singer and composer, he has been influenced both by other North African musicians and by jazz. Ziad was involved in a hard rock band in his youth in Algiers, before moving to Paris to study biology, where he became a jazz drummer for Cheb Mami, Khaled and Idir, among others."
tagline: "Algerian artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karim_Ziad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             0.9570957095709572
  historical:           6.145285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/257434"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "كريم زياد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Ziad"
    title: "Karim Ziad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Ziad"
    title: "Karim Ziad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Ziad"
    title: "Karim Ziad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Ziad"
    title: "Karim Ziad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c85b1620-ad06-4fe9-8d47-6411bdddc89f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1729370"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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