# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-gadd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:54:14.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-gadd"
name: "Steve Gadd"
slug: "steve-gadd"
description: "Stephen Kendall Gadd is an American drummer and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and most highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry, recognized by his induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1984. Gadd's performances on Paul Simon's \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\" (1976) and \"Late in the Evening\" (1980), Herbie Mann's \"Hi-jack\" (1975) and Steely Dan's \"Aja\" (1977) are examples of his style. He has worked with other popular musicians from many genres including Van McCoy, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Chick Corea, Chuck Mangione, Randy Crawford, Eric Clapton, Michel Petrucciani, Paul McCartney, and David Gilmour."
tagline: "American jazz drummer, percussionist and session musician (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Gadd_at_Bod%C3%B8_Jazz_Open_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump