# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vijay-iyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:32:25.307Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vijay-iyer"
name: "Vijay Iyer"
slug: "vijay-iyer"
description: "Vijay Iyer is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. The New York Times has called him a \"social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway\". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the Downbeat magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he was jointly appointed with tenure to Harvard University's departments of music and African American studies as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts."
tagline: "American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vijay_Iyer.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: "1971-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.32862266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4620
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/vijayiyer"
    handle:    "vijayiyer"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/vijayiyermusic"
    handle:    "vijayiyermusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3038104/"
    handle:    "nm3038104"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/27DeRe5LjIt9ZPXUjF90h6"
    handle:    "Vijay Iyer"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://vijay-iyer.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4FuN_1VUFC7-gZhbmc5Okw"
    handle:    "@sonocentric"
    followers: 4620
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/271429"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فيجاي أير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فيجاى اير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "ویجی آیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC"
    title: "വിജയ് അയ്യർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Iyer"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%92_%D8%A2%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "وجے آئیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba2ff5ad-b5a4-499b-aac1-b31fd093112b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650200"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1384601"
    title: "Vijay Iyer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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