# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:14:04.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-taylor"
name: "Billy Taylor"
slug: "billy-taylor"
description: "Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator (1921-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Taylor_(jazz).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: "1921-07-24"
deathDate: "2010-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.15
  momentum:             1.601092896174863
  historical:           17.80976133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://billytaylorjazz.com/"
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    title: "Բիլլի Թեյլոր"
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    title: "Billy Taylor (pianista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Taylor (pianist)"
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    title: "Billy Taylor"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump