# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasily-shumov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:25:32.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasily-shumov"
name: "Vasily Shumov"
slug: "vasily-shumov"
description: "Vasily Gerardovich Shumov is a Russian-American artist, musician, multimedia and experimental artist, short film director and record producer. He is probably best known for his music band Center, which was formed in Soviet Union and has been based in Los Angeles since 1990. Shumov created music in genres such as new wave, electronic music, and avantgarde. His art of singing is often sprechgesang, especially on later albums."
tagline: "Russian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vasily_Shumov_live_2006-11-17_Moscow.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: "1960-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.63
  momentum:             4.682151589242054
  historical:           6.843236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795869/"
    handle:    "nm0795869"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.centromania.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/681634"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "ڤاسيلى شوموڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Shumov"
    title: "Vasily Shumov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "וסילי שומוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шумов, Василий Герардович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шумов Василь Герардович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4434c033-e517-4f14-8a62-e5fdab819964"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4527813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2738944"
    title: "Vasily Shumov"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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