# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-harper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:16:46.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-harper"
name: "Billy Harper"
slug: "billy-harper"
description: "Billy Harper is an American jazz saxophonist, \"one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists\" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Harper_photo_2.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: "1943-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.86
  momentum:             0.7477820025348544
  historical:           6.163861333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/378001"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Harper"
    title: "Billy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Harper"
    title: "Billy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Harper"
    title: "Billy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ビリー・ハーパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Harper"
    title: "Billy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a4f5d78b-b7e5-4f15-852f-5571d5bc90dd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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