# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moondog
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:39:02.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moondog"
name: "Moondog"
slug: "moondog"
description: "Louis Thomas Hardin, known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass."
tagline: "American composer (1916–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Moondog_cemetary.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-05-26"
deathDate: "1999-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.98
  momentum:             2.703468406593407
  historical:           20.06602533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600697/"
    handle:    "nm0600697"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://moondog-music.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "موندوج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0"
    title: "ムーンドッグ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B3"
    title: "Мундог"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B3"
    title: "Мундог"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81"
    title: "มูนด็อก"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134864"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1900914"
    title: "Moondog"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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