# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-keys
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:20:47.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-keys"
name: "Bobby Keys"
slug: "bobby-keys"
description: "Robert Henry Keys was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Nilsson, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Joe Ely, and other prominent musicians. Keys played on hundreds of recordings, and was a touring musician from 1956 until his death in 2014."
tagline: "American saxophonist (1943-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bobby_Keys_October_31%2C_2009_at_Fitzgerald's.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: "1943-12-18"
deathDate: "2014-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53
  momentum:             1.554065972834715
  historical:           17.30246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBobbyKeys"
    handle:    "OfficialBobbyKeys"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0450867/"
    handle:    "nm0450867"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "بوبي كيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "بوبى كيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ボビー・キーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%94%EB%B9%84_%ED%82%A4%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "바비 키스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Keys"
    title: "Bobby Keys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%B7%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Киз, Бобби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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