# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-tanner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:34.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-tanner"
name: "Paul Tanner"
slug: "paul-tanner"
description: "Paul Tanner was an American musician and a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He developed and played the Electro-Theremin, a theremin soundalike instrument that is best known for its use on the Beach Boys 1966 songs \"I Just Wasn't Made for These Times,\" \"Good Vibrations,\" and \"Wild Honey\"."
tagline: "American trombonist (1917–2013)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/18WG5LSCGmoI33auwuNLzKoEssh.jpg"
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: "1917-10-15"
deathDate: "2013-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.0198
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849683/"
    handle:    "nm0849683"
sources:
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    title: "پال ٹینر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باول تانر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "پول تانر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "پاول تانر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner"
    title: "Paul Tanner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner_(Musiker)"
    title: "Paul Tanner (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner"
    title: "Paul Tanner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner"
    title: "Paul Tanner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner"
    title: "Paul Tanner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner"
    title: "Paul Tanner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tanner"
    title: "Paul Tanner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/37f1070c-3941-4216-9b27-40a670a6f1a6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/335632"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363763"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3571846"
    title: "Tanner Paul"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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