# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-denny
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:51:57.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-denny"
name: "Martin Denny"
slug: "martin-denny"
description: "Martin Denny was an American pianist, composer, and arranger. Known as the \"father of exotica\", he was a multi-instrumentalist and could play a number of percussion instruments. In a long career that saw him performing up to 3 weeks prior to his death, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture."
tagline: "American pianist and composer best known for originating the Exotica genre of music (1911–2005)"
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: "1911-04-10"
deathDate: "2005-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.698172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219661/"
    handle:    "nm0219661"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/36860"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "مارتن ديني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "مارتن دينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny"
    title: "Martin Denny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny"
    title: "Martin Denny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny"
    title: "Martin Denny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny"
    title: "Martin Denny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny"
    title: "Martin Denny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マーティン・デニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny"
    title: "Martin Denny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/186edc09-db32-4d4f-ba71-eed418630c83"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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