# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-niedecken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:04:54.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-niedecken"
name: "Wolfgang Niedecken"
slug: "wolfgang-niedecken"
description: "Wolfgang Niedecken is a German singer and musician. He founded the Kölsch-speaking rock group BAP at the end of the 1970s and soon became famous with BAP all over Germany. He is the lead singer and only remaining founding member of BAP."
tagline: "German musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Niedecken-63779_(cropped).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: "1951-03-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.27
  momentum:             18.90891658676894
  historical:           7.322252000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0630611/"
    handle:    "nm0630611"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4BYOgYuivLhqjZncELZ22K"
    handle:    "Wolfgang Niedecken"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Niedecken"
    title: "Wolfgang Niedecken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "وولفجانج نيدكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/440513"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Niedecken"
    title: "Wolfgang Niedecken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Niedecken"
    title: "Wolfgang Niedecken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3147d177-73e3-44a3-ac08-98096e75dccc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Niedecken"
    title: "Wolfgang Niedecken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q896767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1344532"
    title: "Wolfgang Niedecken"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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