# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eddie-hazel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:04:16.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eddie-hazel"
name: "Eddie Hazel"
slug: "eddie-hazel"
description: "Edward Earl Hazel was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song \"Maggot Brain\" is regarded as \"one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument\". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time."
tagline: "American guitarist (1950–1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Ehpalladium.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-04-10"
deathDate: "1992-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.150220913107511
  historical:           20.25124933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2692414/"
    handle:    "nm2692414"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump