# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eddie-jefferson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:38:31.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eddie-jefferson"
name: "Eddie Jefferson"
slug: "eddie-jefferson"
description: "Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his main influence was Leo Watson. Perhaps Jefferson's best-known song is \"Moody's Mood for Love\" which was recorded in 1952 by King Pleasure and catapulted the contrafact into wide popularity. Jefferson's recordings of Charlie Parker's \"Parker's Mood\" and Horace Silver's \"Filthy McNasty\" were also hits."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eddie_Jefferson.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: "1918-08-03"
deathDate: "1979-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.08
  momentum:             6.899999999999999
  historical:           11.633012
  currentAttention:     3.64
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ادی جفرسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%AC%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ادی جفرسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson"
    title: "Eddie Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump