# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-chinna-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:28:37.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-chinna-smith"
name: "Earl \"Chinna\" Smith"
slug: "earl-chinna-smith"
description: "Earl \"Chinna\" Smith, a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest, is a Jamaican guitarist active since the late 1960s. He is most well known for his work with the Soul Syndicate band and as guitarist for Bob Marley & the Wailers, among others, and has recorded with many reggae artists, appearing on more than 500 albums."
tagline: "Jamaican musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ChinnaSmith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.831428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chinnasmithmusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/382296"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "ايرل سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_%22Chinna%22_Smith"
    title: "Earl \"Chinna\" Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Smith"
    title: "Earl Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "アール・チナ・スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Smith"
    title: "Earl Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Smith"
    title: "Earl Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/10100f8f-1ac0-4be3-b560-6ffb29243dd7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3046413"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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