# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-volans
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:20.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-volans"
name: "Kevin Volans"
slug: "kevin-volans"
description: "Kevin Volans is a South African-born Irish composer and pianist. He studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne in the 1970s and later became associated with the Neue Einfachheit movement in the city. In the late 1970s he became interested in the indigenous music of his homeland and began a series of pieces which attempted to combine aspects of African and contemporary European music. Although Volans later moved away from any direct engagement with African music, certain residual elements such as interlocking rhythms, repetition and open forms are still detectable in his music since the early 1990s which have taken a new direction more redolent of certain schools of abstract art. He settled in Ireland permanently in 1986 and was granted Irish citizenship in 1994."
tagline: "South African-Irish composer (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kevin_Volans_(comp)_2015_(Annamarie_Ursula)_P1200477.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.94834533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kevinvolans.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيڤين ڤولانس"
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    title: "Kevin Volans"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Volans"
    title: "Kevin Volans"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Volans"
    title: "Kevin Volans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kevin Volans"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump