# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pamelia-kurstin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:26.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pamelia-kurstin"
name: "Pamelia Kurstin"
slug: "pamelia-kurstin"
description: "Pamelia Stickney is an American theremin player. She has performed and recorded with many artists including David Byrne, Marisa Monte, Yoko Ono, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, David Garland, Seb Rochford, Otto Lechner and Simone Dinnerstein, and was instrumental to the final design of Robert Moog's Etherwave Pro Theremin, for which she was the primary test musician. Kurstin has made various film, television and radio appearances, most notably on Saturday Night Live. and in the 2004 documentary Moog."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vienna_2013-07-12_'central_garden'_-_Blublut_feat._Colin_Webster_078_Pamelia_Kurstin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1976-05-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.91
  momentum:             3.167259786476869
  historical:           6.61332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1617757/"
    handle:    "nm1617757"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/350558"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "باميليا كورستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamelia_Stickney"
    title: "Pamelia Stickney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamelia_Kurstin"
    title: "Pamelia Kurstin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamelia_Kurstin"
    title: "Pamelia Kurstin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamelia_Kurstin"
    title: "Pamelia Kurstin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0276d70a-88b5-45b6-8cc8-afa158535a3f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275179"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4560473"
    title: "Pamelia Kurstin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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