# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-wimbish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:00.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-wimbish"
name: "Doug Wimbish"
slug: "doug-wimbish"
description: "Douglas Arthur Wimbish is an American bassist, primarily known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Depeche Mode, James Brown, Annie Lennox, Tarja Turunen, and Barrington Levy."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doug_Wimbish.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1956-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.26
  momentum:             12.06293706293706
  historical:           11.03596933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://dougwimbish.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/21658"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "دوج ويمبيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wimbish"
    title: "Doug Wimbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/860f853a-eb1c-4ace-a257-555456b40ac6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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