# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/myra-melford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:10.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/myra-melford"
name: "Myra Melford"
slug: "myra-melford"
description: "Myra Melford is an American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Melford was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as an \"explosive player, a virtuoso who shocks and soothes, and who can make the piano stand up and do things it doesn't seem to have been designed for.\""
tagline: "American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Myra_Melford_2018_by_Justus_Nussbaum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1957-01-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.210526315789472
  historical:           8.344781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 580
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/MyraMelford"
    handle:    "MyraMelford"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/myramelford/"
    handle:    "myramelford"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "Myra-Melford-156490601078705"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9OUa0at8Wv_ZeCaZwFQlgQ"
    handle:    "@myramelford5985"
    followers: 580
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    title: "ميرا ميلفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford"
    title: "Myra Melford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford"
    title: "Myra Melford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford"
    title: "Myra Melford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford"
    title: "Myra Melford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford"
    title: "Myra Melford"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump