# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-laucke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:16:20.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-laucke"
name: "Michael Laucke"
slug: "michael-laucke"
description: "Michael Laucke was a Canadian classical, new flamenco and flamenco guitarist and composer. Starting at the age of thirteen, Laucke gave professional snooker demonstrations and his winnings allowed him to take trips from Montreal to New York City to study the classical guitar with Rolando Valdés-Blain. With a career spanning over 30 years, Laucke began performing in 1965, recording the first of 16 albums in 1969, and toured in 25 countries. In 1971, he performed his first of many concerts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His first concert in New York, where he also first met Senator Claiborne Pell, took place in 1972."
tagline: "Canadian classical and flamenco guitarist (1947–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guitarist_Michael_Laucke_2011.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1947-01-29"
deathDate: "2021-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             0.9844559585492227
  historical:           6.140965333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MichaelLaucke"
    handle:    "MichaelLaucke"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaellaucke.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1242347"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "مايكل لاوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Laucke"
    title: "Michael Laucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Laucke"
    title: "Michael Laucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Laucke"
    title: "Michael Laucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Laucke"
    title: "Michael Laucke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d8c57a60-5f44-4c0c-aa8e-aaf252068175"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21104226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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