# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-t-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:32:36.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-t-smith"
name: "Claude T. Smith"
slug: "claude-t-smith"
description: "Claude Thomas Smith was an American band conductor, composer, and music educator. His compositions include Flight, adopted as the \"Official March\" of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and Eternal Father, Strong to Save, commissioned in 1975, that premiered at a Kennedy Center celebration of the 50th anniversary of the United States Navy Band."
tagline: "American conductor and composer (1932-1987)"
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: "1932-03-14"
deathDate: "1987-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.01998
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2126752"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "كلود تي سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "كلود سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_T._Smith"
    title: "Claude T. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_T._Smith"
    title: "Claude T. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "クロード・トーマス・スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_T._Smith"
    title: "Claude T. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c621ae9b-59bb-4528-8f02-a518624542f6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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