# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-byrd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:04:56.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-byrd"
name: "Donald Byrd"
slug: "donald-byrd"
description: "Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop musicians who successfully explored funk and soul while remaining a jazz artist. As a bandleader, Byrd was an influence on the early career of Herbie Hancock and many others."
tagline: "American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist (1932–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Byrd_(Donaldson_Toussaint_L'Ouverture_Byrd_II).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-12-09"
deathDate: "2013-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump