# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-strange
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:16:36.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-strange"
name: "Billy Strange"
slug: "billy-strange"
description: "William Everett Strange was an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and actor. He began as a session musician with the Wrecking Crew, a famous session band of the 1960s and 1970s, and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum as a member of that ensemble in 2007."
tagline: "American musician (1930-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Joan_O%27Brien_and_Billy_Strange_circa_1956.jpg/330px-Joan_O%27Brien_and_Billy_Strange_circa_1956.jpg"
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: "1930-09-29"
deathDate: "2012-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.92
  momentum:             11.97468461157425
  historical:           10.62578133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833350/"
    handle:    "nm0833350"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.billystrangemusic.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بيلي سترينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بيلى سترينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بیلی استرینج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strange"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strange"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strange"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strange"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بیلی استرینج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strange"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strange"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9bfecfa4-0908-4842-b7bb-617f38532bb7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1575124"
    title: "Billy Strange"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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