# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leyland-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:36:38.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leyland-kirby"
name: "Leyland Kirby"
slug: "leyland-kirby"
description: "James Leyland Kirby, known professionally as the Caretaker, is an English ambient musician. His work as the Caretaker is characterized as exploring memory and its gradual deterioration, nostalgia, and melancholy. The project was initially inspired by the haunted ballroom scene in the 1980 film The Shining, the 1978 TV show Pennies from Heaven, and the 1962 film Carnival of Souls. His first several releases comprised treated and manipulated samples of 1930s ballroom pop recordings. Most of his album covers were painted by his friend, Ivan Seal."
tagline: "British musician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1974-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.24
  momentum:             7.256452429149798
  historical:           13.24871066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LeylandKirby"
    handle:    "LeylandKirby"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2987876/"
    handle:    "nm2987876"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brainwashed.com/vvm"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1550794"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Kirby"
    title: "Leyland Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caretaker_(musician)"
    title: "The Caretaker (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caretaker_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "The Caretaker (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leyland_Kirby"
    title: "James Leyland Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leyland_Kirby"
    title: "James Leyland Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A8"
    title: "הקרטייקר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Kirby"
    title: "Leyland Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caretaker_(musicus)"
    title: "The Caretaker (musicus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohlokomedi_(seopedi)_."
    title: "Mohlokomedi (seopedi) ."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caretaker"
    title: "The Caretaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caretaker"
    title: "The Caretaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leyland_Kirby"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d3f83316-4df7-4708-816b-47591b319f2f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1632622"
    title: "Leyland Kirby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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