# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-seeger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:25:24.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-seeger"
name: "Mike Seeger"
slug: "mike-seeger"
description: "Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him. He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018."
tagline: "American folk musician and folklorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Seeger_plays_gourd_banjo_at_Breakin_Up_Winter.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: "1933-08-15"
deathDate: "2009-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.93
  momentum:             0.9917355371900823
  historical:           9.526786666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1182412/"
    handle:    "nm1182412"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kJfeECt6CmcCBM8uX1td8"
    handle:    "7kJfeECt6CmcCBM8uX1td8"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mikeseeger.info/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ميك سيجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Seeger"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Seeger"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Seeger"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Seeger"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC_%EC%8B%9C%EA%B1%B0"
    title: "마이크 시거"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Seeger"
    title: "Michael Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Seeger"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Seeger"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/22baef3d-f490-43da-bea8-3a9a4d149143"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4992201"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1046724"
    title: "Mike Seeger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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