# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlie-fowlkes
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:02:06.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlie-fowlkes"
name: "Charlie Fowlkes"
slug: "charlie-fowlkes"
description: "Charles Baker Fowlkes was an American baritone saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra for over 25 years."
tagline: "American musician (1916–1980)"
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: "1916-02-16"
deathDate: "1980-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.07
  momentum:             3.092391304347826
  historical:           7.871310666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/272662"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلز فولكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fowlkes"
    title: "Charles Fowlkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Fowlkes"
    title: "Charlie Fowlkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fowlkes"
    title: "Charles Fowlkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fowlkes"
    title: "Charles Fowlkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Fowlkes"
    title: "Charlie Fowlkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Чарлі Фаулкс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a0987958-9687-4d9e-b11c-71d7a6506d30"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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