# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sean-kinney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:54:34.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sean-kinney"
name: "Sean Kinney"
slug: "sean-kinney"
description: "Sean Howard Kinney is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Alice in Chains. Kinney also founded the short-lived supergroup Spys4Darwin, and has collaborated with other artists such as Johnny Cash and Metallica. He played drums for his Alice in Chains bandmate, Jerry Cantrell's first solo album, Boggy Depot (1998). Since 2009, Kinney has been co-owner of The Crocodile club in Seattle. He was a guest drummer on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers in September 2018. Kinney has earned nine Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains."
tagline: "American drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alice_in_Chains_-_2019158181121_2019-06-07_Rock_am_Ring_-_0853_-_B70I8153_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "aliceinchains"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump