# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wawau-adler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:01:56.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wawau-adler"
name: "Wawau Adler"
slug: "wawau-adler"
description: "Josef Wawau Adler is a German-Romani jazz guitarist. Born into a family of Sinti Roma, he is heavily influenced by Django Reinhardt, but also Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, Pat Martino and George Benson. He formed a trio with Holzmanno Winterstein and Axel Miller, and has also played with Andreas Öberg and Joel Locher, the bassist who he released Here’s to Django with in 2010, and many others.2013 Recorded Wawau Adler the CD Expressions with Hono Winterstein Eva Slongo Joel Locher and Bertrand Le Guillou. In 2020 Wawau released his current CD Happy Birthday Django 110 by GLM music. Latest CD I play with you GLM music. 2022"
tagline: "German gypsy jazz guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wawau_Adler_Djangofestivalen_2019_(202351).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1967-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.71
  momentum:             16.42414860681114
  historical:           5.946617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AdlerWawau"
    handle:    "AdlerWawau"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/WawauAdlerJazz"
    handle:    "WawauAdlerJazz"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wawau-adler.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/559225"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "واو ادلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawau_Adler"
    title: "Wawau Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawau_Adler"
    title: "Wawau Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawau_Adler"
    title: "Wawau Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawau_Adler"
    title: "Wawau Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9c74f8ff-4993-4e10-9153-a0aae506b5e1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q800103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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