# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-hedges
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:38:02.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-hedges"
name: "Michael Hedges"
slug: "michael-hedges"
description: "Michael Alden Hedges was an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter. He was known as a virtuoso who used unorthodox playing techniques, and much of his output was classified as new age music. Hedges died in an auto accident, and won a posthumous Grammy Award for his album Oracle."
tagline: "American guitarist (1953–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Michael_Hedges.jpg"
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: "1953-12-31"
deathDate: "1997-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.63
  momentum:             16.88794153471376
  historical:           15.04234666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1034587/"
    handle:    "nm1034587"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3IqoFUpoJi1qvebL8Vi2aK"
    handle:    "3IqoFUpoJi1qvebL8Vi2aK"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nomadland.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "مايكل هيدجيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "مايكل هيدجيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%AC%D8%B2"
    title: "مایکل هجز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%AC%D8%B2"
    title: "مایکل هجز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%93%D7%92'%D7%A1"
    title: "מייקל הדג'ס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B9"
    title: "マイケル・ヘッジス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Хеджес, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fbaba2b0-3a6f-41b1-9ecd-f89c1a666e99"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1406069"
    title: "Michael Hedges"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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