# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-strings
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:42:09.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-strings"
name: "Billy Strings"
slug: "billy-strings"
description: "William Lee Apostol, known by the stage name Billy Strings, is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bluegrass musician. Three of his albums, Home, Live Vol. 1, Highway Prayers, have won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2021, 2025, and 2026 respectively."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Strings.jpeg?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: "1993-10-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.954556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/billystrings/"
    handle:    "billystrings"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@billystringsofficial"
    handle:    "billystringsofficial"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/billystrings1"
    handle:    "billystrings1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9787365/"
    handle:    "nm9787365"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.billystrings.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/640db492-34c4-47df-be14-96e2cd4b9fe4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52004084"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2133194"
    title: "Billy Strings"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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