# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-beggs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:46:32.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-beggs"
name: "Nick Beggs"
slug: "nick-beggs"
description: "Nicholas Beggs is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of the Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson. He is known for modifying a Chapman Stick into a fully MIDI-capable instrument triggering MIDI from both bass and melody strings; he calls it the Virtual Stick."
tagline: "English bassist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nick_Beggs_bassist.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: "1961-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.92
  momentum:             0.5734157650695518
  historical:           11.846276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1198925/"
    handle:    "nm1198925"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7l8no590OuDL5sSahA1DQn"
    handle:    "7l8no590OuDL5sSahA1DQn"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nickbeggs.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/406138"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B2"
    title: "نيك بيجز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B2"
    title: "نيك بيجز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Beggs"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%A8%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "نک بیگز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/25110762-0ee7-45fd-b595-4fe9aab6b8de"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3492484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1100002"
    title: "Nick Beggs"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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