# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-gira
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:52:07.304Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-gira"
name: "Michael Gira"
slug: "michael-gira"
description: "Michael Rolfe Gira is an American singer-songwriter, composer, author and artist. Now based in New Mexico, he founded the band Swans, in which he sings and plays guitar, in New York City in the 1980s at the height of the no wave movement. He is also the founder of Young God Records and previously fronted Angels of Light."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MichaelGira_PortlandOR_2009-03-03_HowardForbes.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: "1954-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.69419733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1953128/"
    handle:    "nm1953128"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rQQ3KNeDPmiNGRKk15TJH"
    handle:    "Michael Gira"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/79651"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ميتشايل جيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Джира, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Gira"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8d936df1-9da6-4b11-87c3-7bb8fd8a62c4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373629"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1187022"
    title: "Michael Gira"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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