# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-abel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:59.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-abel"
name: "Richard Abel"
slug: "richard-abel"
description: "Richard Abel is a Canadian instrumental musician and pianist. He is one of the best selling Canadian instrumental artists of all time. He has been nominated for a Juno award three times."
tagline: "Canadian pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RichardAbel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             0.1265822784810127
  historical:           7.278186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12476586/"
    handle:    "nm12476586"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2472858"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ريتشارد أبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ريتشارد ابيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Abel_(musician)"
    title: "Richard Abel (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Abel_(musicien)"
    title: "Richard Abel (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Abel_(mawaki)"
    title: "Richard Abel (mawaki)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%9A%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A1_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%B2"
    title: "ਰਿਚਰਡ ਐਬਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bac40299-d220-412d-bfb5-9ca1ea36a43e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3430449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2331476"
    title: "Richard Abel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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