# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-saunderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:25.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-saunderson"
name: "Kevin Saunderson"
slug: "kevin-saunderson"
description: "Kevin Maurice Saunderson is an American electronic dance music DJ and record producer. He is famous for being a member of a trio, along with Juan Atkins and Derrick May, who came to be known as The Belleville Three and is often credited to be among the pioneers and originators of techno music: in particular this act helped define Detroit techno, the earliest style of this genre. Born in New York, at the age of nine he moved to Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, where at Belleville High School he befriended the other members of the trio."
tagline: "American DJ"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ksaunderson2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1964-09-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5367793240556661
  historical:           14.69911866666667
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kevinsaunderson.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump