# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-riley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:28:47.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-riley"
name: "Terry Riley"
slug: "terry-riley"
description: "Terrence Mitchell Riley is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape delay systems, and improvisation. His best known works are the 1964 composition In C and the 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air, both considered landmarks of minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music."
tagline: "American composer and musician (born 1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Terry_Riley%2C_Tokyo_8_Nov_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.74218
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0727178"
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    handle:    "7DnLQaXsqcYkgm0nyDrB3r"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Terry Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Riley"
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    title: "Райли, Терри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Riley Terry"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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