# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-newman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:46:33.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-newman"
name: "Steve Newman"
slug: "steve-newman"
description: "Steve Newman is a South African acoustic guitarist and a founding member of the group Tananas. For thirty years Newman has been collaborating with fellow South African guitarist, Tony Cox. He is also one of The Aquarian Quartet, consisting of Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen, Greg Georgiades and Steve Newman. He was a member of Mondetta, a self-described world music group, with Gito Baloi and Wendy Oldfield."
tagline: "South African acoustic guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Newman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.803708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stevenewman.co.za/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/64586"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Newman"
    title: "Steve Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "ستيف نيومان (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Newman_(musician)"
    title: "Steve Newman (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Newman"
    title: "Steve Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Newman"
    title: "Steve Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Newman_(mwanamuziki)"
    title: "Steve Newman (mwanamuziki)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/879d25fc-106f-425d-a4fb-c30468b4361e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1767184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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