# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-dyke-parks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:24:17.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-dyke-parks"
name: "Van Dyke Parks"
slug: "van-dyke-parks"
description: "Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Americana iconography, free-associative lyrics, and Caribbean sounds. He is best known for his 1967 album Song Cycle and his collaborative work with acts such as the Beach Boys, Lowell George, and Harry Nilsson."
tagline: "American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Van_Dyke_Parks_1967.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-01-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.88890533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.vandykeparks.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump