# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billie-pierce
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:54:51.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billie-pierce"
name: "Billie Pierce"
slug: "billie-pierce"
description: "Wilhelmina Madison Goodson, known professionally as Billie Pierce, was an American jazz pianist and singer, who performed and recorded with her husband De De Pierce. Her style has been described as a \"potent mixture of barrelhouse, boogie-woogie, and ragtime\". After settling in New Orleans in 1930, she played in the bands of A.J. Piron, Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and singer (1907–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Billie_Goodson_Pierce.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: "1907-06-08"
deathDate: "1974-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             18.86363636363636
  historical:           6.139921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/634499"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Pierce"
    title: "Billie Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Pierce"
    title: "Billie Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Pierce"
    title: "Billie Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Pierce"
    title: "Billie Pierce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9_(%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)"
    title: "ビリー・ピアース (ピアニスト)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e30780b1-4ddf-4fdb-9ac7-7c8e26eba6f3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862845"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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