# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-shirley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:34:00.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-shirley"
name: "Don Shirley"
slug: "don-shirley"
description: "Donald Walbridge Shirley was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical influence. He wrote organ symphonies, piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera, works for organ, piano and violin, a symphonic poem based on the 1939 novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, and a set of \"Variations\" on the 1858 opera Orpheus in the Underworld."
tagline: "American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Don_Shirley.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1927-01-29"
deathDate: "2013-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.525666637713888
  historical:           26.11375066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4156396/"
    handle:    "nm4156396"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump