# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-ascher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:53:44.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-ascher"
name: "Kenneth Ascher"
slug: "kenneth-ascher"
description: "Kenneth Lee Ascher is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. With Paul Williams, he wrote the song \"Rainbow Connection\" for The Muppet Movie. Both Williams and Ascher received Oscar nominations for the 1979 Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. The song was also nominated for the Golden Globes for \"Best Original Song\" that same year. Ascher and Williams also wrote \"You and Me Against the World\", a top-10 hit for Helen Reddy in 1974."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenny_Ascher.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: "1944-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             10.54946512777838
  historical:           9.705906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038502/"
    handle:    "nm0038502"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "كينيث استشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کنت اشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Ascher"
    title: "Kenneth Ascher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Ascher"
    title: "Kenneth Ascher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Ascher"
    title: "Kenneth Ascher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A2%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "کنت آشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ケニー・アスチャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BC%80%EB%84%A4%EC%8A%A4_%EC%95%84%EC%85%94"
    title: "케네스 아셔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ascher"
    title: "Ken Ascher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%86%D8%B1"
    title: "کینتھ ایسچر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0bf69115-9b4a-491a-9265-d026cfd8af5d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q989574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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