# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-scruggs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:02:49.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-scruggs"
name: "Earl Scruggs"
slug: "earl-scruggs"
description: "Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called \"Scruggs style\", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played. This new style of playing became popular and elevated the banjo from its previous role as a background rhythm instrument to featured solo status. He popularized the instrument across several genres of music."
tagline: "American musician (1924–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Earl_Scruggs_2005.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1924-01-06"
deathDate: "2012-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.90953333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://earlscruggs.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump