# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-k-harris
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:22:51.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-k-harris"
name: "Charles K. Harris"
slug: "charles-k-harris"
description: "Charles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the \"king of the tear jerkers\". He is one of the early pioneers of Tin Pan Alley."
tagline: "American composer (1865-1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Kassell_Harris%2C_three-quarter_length_portrait_LCCN98503000_(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: "1867-05-01"
deathDate: "1930-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.609504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1228267"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%83._%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلز ك. هاريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kassell_Harris"
    title: "Charles Kassell Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Harris"
    title: "Charles K. Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Harris"
    title: "Charles K. Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Harris"
    title: "Charles K. Harris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3_%DA%A9%DB%92_%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "چارلس کے ہیرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7b2e4d46-874f-4fbf-911b-01ecd849f508"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1565600"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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