# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-young
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:59:43.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-young"
name: "Neil Young"
slug: "neil-young"
description: "Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Young was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu."
tagline: "Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neil_Young_Stavernfestivalen_2016_(220929).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-11-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           77.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           30.28902
  currentAttention:     12.25
  sourceConfidence:     100
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  35
  category: null
totalFollowers: 815000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.neilyoungarchives.com/"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/neilyoungarchives/"
    handle:    "neilyoungarchives"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
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  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "NeilYoungNYA"
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@neilyoungchannel"
    followers: 815000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نيل يونغ"
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    title: "Neil Young"
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    title: "Neil Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Young"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump