# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klaus-schulze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:48:42.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/klaus-schulze"
name: "Klaus Schulze"
slug: "klaus-schulze"
description: "Klaus Schulze was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across six decades."
tagline: "German composer and musician (1947–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Klaus_Schulze_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-08-04"
deathDate: "2022-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.75744933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.klaus-schulze.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump