# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lindsay-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:08:48.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lindsay-cooper"
name: "Lindsay Cooper"
slug: "lindsay-cooper"
description: "Lindsay Cooper was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group. She wrote scores for film and TV and a song cycle Oh Moscow which was performed live around the world in 1987. She also recorded a number of solo albums, including Rags (1980), The Gold Diggers (1983), and Music For Other Occasions (1986)."
tagline: "English musician (1951–2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/LindsayCooper_TheCortege.jpg"
gender: "female"
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: "1951-03-03"
deathDate: "2013-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             0.3847414070028911
  historical:           13.440284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178221/"
    handle:    "nm0178221"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Cooper"
    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Cooper"
    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لنڈسے کوپر"
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    title: "Lindsay Cooper"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump