# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/birch-monroe
# Generated: 2026-08-20T18:12:52.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/birch-monroe"
name: "Birch Monroe"
slug: "birch-monroe"
description: "Birch Monroe was an American old time and early bluegrass fiddler, bassist, dancer, founding member of the Monroe brothers, and older brother to Charlie and Bill Monroe. He grew up on a farm with five brothers and sisters before leaving it in the late twenties. Unlike brothers Charlie and Bill he chose to not pursue a career in music."
tagline: "American bluegrass musician (1901-1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Birch_Monroe_portrait.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1901-05-16"
deathDate: "1982-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137149333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1066209"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "بيرش مونرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "بيرش مونرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Monroe"
    title: "Birch Monroe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Monroe"
    title: "Birch Monroe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Monroe"
    title: "Birch Monroe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/41a0a665-471e-4960-a481-badda008d4b2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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