# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martyn-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:38.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martyn-bennett"
name: "Martyn Bennett"
slug: "martyn-bennett"
description: "Martyn Bennett was a Canadian-Scottish musician who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic and modern music. He was a piper, violinist, composer and producer. Diagnosis of serious illness at the age of thirty curtailed his live performances, although he completed a further two albums in the studio. He died from cancer in 2005, fifteen months after the release of his fifth album Grit."
tagline: "Scottish/Canadian musician (1971-2005)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1971-02-17"
deathDate: "2005-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             0.7607497243660418
  historical:           10.16846933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1745947/"
    handle:    "nm1745947"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1caCfJzVAjq53VoXHGSSk3"
    handle:    "Martyn Bennett"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.martynbennett.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مارتين بينيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Bennett"
    title: "Martyn Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارتین بینیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Bennett"
    title: "Martyn Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Bennett"
    title: "Martyn Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Bennett"
    title: "Martyn Bennett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Martyn Bennett"
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    title: "Martyn Bennett"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Bennett"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Martyn Bennett"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump