# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-abels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:31:27.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-abels"
name: "Michael Abels"
slug: "michael-abels"
description: "Michael Abels is an American composer best known for the opera Omar, co-written with Rhiannon Giddens, and his scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us and Nope. The hip-hop influenced score for Us was short-listed for the Oscars and was even named \"Score of the Decade\" by TheWrap. Other recent media projects include the films Bad Education, Nightbooks, Fake Famous, and the docu-series Allen v. Farrow. His most recent releases include Beauty which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix, Breaking which premiered at Sundance, and his third collaboration with Jordan Peele, Nope."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Abels(8).Photo_by_Eric_Schwabel.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: "1962-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.6815358554489
  historical:           10.62056133333333
  currentAttention:     20.76
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/michaelabels"
    handle:    "michaelabels"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8752173/"
    handle:    "nm8752173"
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    handle:    "7lDkWxhwIuRAIzmHf85yKx"
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    title: "مايكل ابيلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abels"
    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abels"
    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abels"
    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abels"
    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abels"
    title: "Michael Abels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump