# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zeena-parkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:52:47.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zeena-parkins"
name: "Zeena Parkins"
slug: "zeena-parkins"
description: "Zeena Parkins is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having \"reinvented the harp\". Parkins performs on standard harps, several custom electric harps, piano, and accordion. She was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and professor in the Music Department at Mills College."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ZeenaParkins_April2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.08
  momentum:             0.4958677685950412
  historical:           7.885458666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.zeenaparkins.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "زينة باركنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeena_Parkins"
    title: "Zeena Parkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeena_Parkins"
    title: "Zeena Parkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeena_Parkins"
    title: "Zeena Parkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeena_Parkins"
    title: "Zeena Parkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジーナ・パーキンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeena_Parkins"
    title: "Zeena Parkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/548e245f-ec6d-4688-a99c-f549fbe33ee5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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