# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-thorup
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:08:05.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-thorup"
name: "Peter Thorup"
slug: "peter-thorup"
description: "Peter Eiberg Thorup was a Danish guitarist, singer, composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark, and he was known outside his own country, when in the late 1960s he met Alexis Korner and the two formed the bands New Church, The Beefeaters, CCS, and later Snape."
tagline: "Danish musician (1948–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Thorup.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-12-14"
deathDate: "2007-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.811556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1281444/"
    handle:    "nm1281444"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/691669"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE"
    title: "پيتير ثوروپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thorup"
    title: "Peter Thorup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thorup"
    title: "Peter Thorup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thorup"
    title: "Peter Thorup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thorup"
    title: "Peter Thorup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thorup"
    title: "Peter Thorup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/662d811f-e919-4672-ab49-ba4319ebf581"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351977"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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