# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-albini
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:23:27.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-albini"
name: "Steve Albini"
slug: "steve-albini"
description: "Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989), and Shellac (1992–2024), and engineered acclaimed albums such as the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, Nirvana's In Utero, and Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers (2009)."
tagline: "American record engineer and musician (1962–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albini_atp.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-07-22"
deathDate: "2024-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.634512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "electricalWSOP"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1328560/"
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    title: "Steve Albini"
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    title: "Steve Albini"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steve Albini"
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    title: "Альбини, Стив"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steve Albini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steve Albini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steve Albini"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump