# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blind-tom-wiggins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:06:32.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blind-tom-wiggins"
name: "Blind Tom Wiggins"
slug: "blind-tom-wiggins"
description: "Thomas \"Blind Tom\" Wiggins was an American pianist and composer. He had numerous original compositions published and had a lengthy and largely successful performing career throughout the United States. During the 19th century, Wiggins was one of the best-known American performing pianists and one of the best-known Black musicians."
tagline: "American pianist and composer (1849–1908)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blind_Tom_LCCN2002712734_(cropped).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: "1849-05-25"
deathDate: "1908-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.059832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/6775939"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "بليند توم ويجينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wiggins"
    title: "Tom Wiggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom_Wiggins"
    title: "Blind Tom Wiggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wiggins"
    title: "Tom Wiggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "תום העיוור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom_Wiggins"
    title: "Blind Tom Wiggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9ff6bad4-b827-481c-bf10-4d7278ef743f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1394370"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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