# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marty-balin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:34:22.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marty-balin"
name: "Marty Balin"
slug: "marty-balin"
description: "Martyn Jerel Buchwald, known as Marty Balin, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship."
tagline: "American singer, songwriter, and musician (1942–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MartyBalinPerforming.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-01-30"
deathDate: "2018-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.82028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0050246"
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    url:       "http://www.martybalin.net"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Marty Balin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump