# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-shapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:19:14.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-shapiro"
name: "Paul Shapiro"
slug: "paul-shapiro"
description: "Paul Shapiro is an American jazz, world and klezmer saxophonist from New York City."
tagline: "American musician; jazz, world, and klezmer saxophonist from New York City"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Apfelbaum_%26_Paul_Shapiro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.71
  momentum:             3.298969072164948
  historical:           7.071310666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788611/"
    handle:    "nm0788611"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulshapiromusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/27587"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "بول شابيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%86%DA%B5_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%86"
    title: "پۆڵ شاپیرۆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shapiro_(hudebn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Paul Shapiro (hudebník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shapiro_(musician)"
    title: "Paul Shapiro (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shapiro"
    title: "Paul Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shapiro"
    title: "Paul Shapiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/90966a4b-ad6c-4364-a102-523b71061162"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153545"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17312"
    title: "Paul Shapiro"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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