# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-afanasieff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:42:18.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-afanasieff"
name: "Walter Afanasieff"
slug: "walter-afanasieff"
description: "Walter Afanasieff, formerly nicknamed Baby Love in the 1980s, is an American record producer and songwriter. He was a frequent collaborator of Mariah Carey on her first six studio albums. Afanasieff and Carey co-wrote many songs together, including the number-one singles \"Hero\", \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\", \"One Sweet Day\", and \"My All\". He won the 1999 Grammy Award in the Record of the Year category for producing \"My Heart Will Go On\" by Celine Dion, and the 2000 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical."
tagline: "American record producer and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Afanasieff_and_Tamara_Gee_1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1958-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             30.97260273972603
  historical:           14.89735466666666
  currentAttention:     8.24
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "월터 아파나시에프"
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    title: "Walter Afanasieff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump