# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-keith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:36:38.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-keith"
name: "Bill Keith"
slug: "bill-keith"
description: "William Bradford \"Bill\" Keith was an American five-string banjoist who made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument. In the 1960s he introduced a variation on the popular \"Scruggs style\" of banjo playing which would soon become known as melodic style, or \"Keith style\". He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2015."
tagline: "American banjo player (1939–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Keith%2C_banjoist_on_stage_at_Cambridge_Folk_Festival%2C_July_1985.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1939-12-20"
deathDate: "2015-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.62
  momentum:             1.507462686567164
  historical:           9.027756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1851436/"
    handle:    "nm1851436"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/672434"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "بيل كيث (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "بيل كيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "بیل کیث (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keith"
    title: "Bill Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keith_(musician)"
    title: "Bill Keith (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keith"
    title: "Bill Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keith"
    title: "Bill Keith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keith_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Bill Keith (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e777b9a2-ef06-474a-a9fb-9e956a311cc9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362871"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2655308"
    title: "Bill Keith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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