# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-halstead
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:39:02.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-halstead"
name: "Neil Halstead"
slug: "neil-halstead"
description: "Neil Halstead is an English musician known as the singer, primary songwriter, producer and guitarist of shoegaze band Slowdive. He has been hailed by AllMusic as \"one of Britain's most respected songwriters\", and Time Out as \"one of Britain's greatest songwriters\"."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neil_Halstead.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1970-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.915357767508954
  historical:           10.26621466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "neilhalstead"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/neilhalstead"
    handle:    "neilhalstead"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1217948/"
    handle:    "nm1217948"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mojave3online.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نيل هالستيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيل هالستيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Halstead"
    title: "Neil Halstead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Halstead"
    title: "Neil Halstead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AF"
    title: "نیل هالستد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Halstead"
    title: "Neil Halstead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%89"
    title: "ニール・ハルステッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Halstead"
    title: "Neil Halstead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Halstead"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/184699cd-f489-463a-95c3-f2f72d6fd92a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1776073"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Neil Halstead"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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