# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlie-parker
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:31:47.115Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charlie-parker"
name: "Charlie Parker"
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description: "He rewired jazz in real time — fast, knotted, harmonically left-field — and made the alto saxophone sound like thought moving faster than anyone expected music could go."
tagline: "American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1920-08-29"
deathDate: "1955-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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    title: "چارلی پارکر"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles Parker Jr., born August 29, 1920, picked up the alto saxophone and became the central architect of bebop, the form that cracked jazz open with rapid tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies no one had quite heard before. He introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas — rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, chord substitutions — that pulled the music into territory more cerebral and technically demanding than what came before. Nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird," he became an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just an entertainer. He died March 12, 1955, at thirty-four.