# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paddy-keenan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:10:22.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paddy-keenan"
name: "Paddy Keenan"
slug: "paddy-keenan"
description: "Paddy Keenan is an Irish player of the uilleann pipes who first gained fame as a founding member of The Bothy Band. Since that group's dissolution in the late 1970s, Keenan has released a number of solo and collaborative recordings, and continues to tour both as a soloist, and with singer/guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan."
tagline: "Irish musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paddy_Keenan_ACF.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.75
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           7.685422666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/918801"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "پادى كينان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Keenan"
    title: "Paddy Keenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Keenan"
    title: "Paddy Keenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Keenan"
    title: "Paddy Keenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Keenan"
    title: "Paddy Keenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3"
    title: "パディ・キーナン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Keenan"
    title: "Paddy Keenan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f38f017f-f1d6-4668-ad1a-442316fc43d2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q570437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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