# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benny-turner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:20:27.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benny-turner"
name: "Benny Turner"
slug: "benny-turner"
description: "Benny Turner is an American blues musician. He is the younger brother of Freddie King and was the bass guitarist for the Freddie King Band. Later, Turner joined Mighty Joe Young as the bass guitarist of his band before becoming the bandleader for Marva Wright for 20 years. After many years as a sideman, Turner started his solo career."
tagline: "American blues musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benny-Turner_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1939-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.42
  momentum:             25
  historical:           2.875306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bennyturner.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Turner"
    title: "Benny Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/355c2e01-bf5c-476c-9124-b9e2f0712d54"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/624298"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29035318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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