# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philippe-aerts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:15:13.601Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philippe-aerts"
name: "Philippe Aerts"
slug: "philippe-aerts"
description: "Philippe Aerts is a Belgian jazz double bassist. He taught himself guitar and electric bass guitar when he was 11 and started playing the double bass at age 14. He is a member of Philip Catherine trio and the Ivan Paduart trio. He also has his own trio with John Ruocco and Tony Levin (drums) and quartet with Bert Joris (trumpet). He won the Belgian Golden Django in 2002 for best Belgian artist."
tagline: "Jazz double bassist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philippe_Aerts.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1964-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.56
  momentum:             1.071428571428571
  historical:           7.003348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/499516"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "فيليب آيرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "فيليب آيرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Aerts"
    title: "Philippe Aerts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Aerts"
    title: "Philippe Aerts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Aerts"
    title: "Philippe Aerts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Aerts"
    title: "Philippe Aerts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9c45e44e-941b-4839-9778-018dc7f19af3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q968555"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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