# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-varney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:47.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-varney"
name: "Mike Varney"
slug: "mike-varney"
description: "Michael Varney is an American record producer and music publisher. He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records, and Blues Bureau International. He also owns 50% of Magna Carta Records, a New York–based label. Varney is often credited with popularizing the mid-1980s shred guitar boom, and has continuously specialized in producing musicians within the genres of instrumental rock, hard rock, jazz, jazz fusion, blues, blues-rock, progressive metal, and speed metal."
tagline: "American record producer"
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: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.50759866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7093798/"
    handle:    "nm7093798"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shrapnelrecords.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/304446"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "مایک وارنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "مایک وارنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マイク・ヴァーニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varney"
    title: "Mike Varney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/46aa227f-d98f-4bb8-b2a7-b08c1a60b663"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720240"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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