# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eddie-lang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:03:50.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eddie-lang"
name: "Eddie Lang"
slug: "eddie-lang"
description: "Eddie Lang was an American musician who is credited as the father of jazz guitar. During the 1920s, he gave the guitar a prominence it previously lacked as a solo instrument, as part of a band or orchestra, and as accompaniment for vocalists. He recorded duets with guitarists Lonnie Johnson and Carl Kress and jazz violinist Joe Venuti, and played rhythm guitar in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and was the favoured accompanist of Bing Crosby."
tagline: "American jazz guitarist (1902–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guitar_of_eddie_lang_L5.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: "1902-10-25"
deathDate: "1933-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.22
  momentum:             18.07479224376731
  historical:           14.52282666666667
  currentAttention:     26.96
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485734/"
    handle:    "nm0485734"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إدي لانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82"
    title: "ادی لانق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92"
    title: "אדי לאנג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Lang"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338957"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1465456"
    title: "Eddie Lang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump