# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-sandman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:04:34.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-sandman"
name: "Mark Sandman"
slug: "mark-sandman"
description: "Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and a mysterious demeanour. He was an indie rock icon and longtime fixture in the Boston/Cambridge music scene, best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine. Sandman was also a member of the blues-rock band Treat Her Right and founder of Hi-n-Dry, a recording studio and independent record label."
tagline: "Indie-rock musician, lead singer for band Morphine"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Sandman_Mississippi_Nights_1997.04.09.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-09-24"
deathDate: "1999-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.25
  momentum:             15
  historical:           12.186352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762022/"
    handle:    "nm0762022"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/278651"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "مارك ساندمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandman"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Сэндман, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Марк Сендмен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Марк Сендман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bdb7b3b2-de80-4a9d-8056-07f706cb2941"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2403115"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1488936"
    title: "Mark Sandman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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