# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-cobham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:24:02.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-cobham"
name: "Billy Cobham"
slug: "billy-cobham"
description: "William Emanuel Cobham Jr. is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra."
tagline: "Panamanian jazz drummer and composer (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Cobham_Kongsberg_Jazzfestival_2024_(140927).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-05-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 144
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    title: "Billy Cobham"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump