# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bukka-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:00.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bukka-white"
name: "Bukka White"
slug: "bukka-white"
description: "Booker T. Washington \"Bukka\" White was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. His first full-length biography, The Life and Music of Booker \"Bukka\" White: Recalling the Blues (2024), has been published by the University Press of Mississippi."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Booker_White_1968_by_JT.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: "1909-11-12"
deathDate: "1977-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.57542266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033620/"
    handle:    "nm1033620"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بوكا وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98"
    title: "בוקה וייט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88"
    title: "ブッカ・ホワイト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B6%80%EC%B9%B4_%ED%99%94%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "부카 화이트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Уайт, Букка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_White"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/882af819-887e-4691-a4af-b14613058942"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q918497"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1079557"
    title: "Bukka White"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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