# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eddie-vinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:59.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eddie-vinson"
name: "Eddie Vinson"
slug: "eddie-vinson"
description: "Eddie \"Cleanhead\" Vinson was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed \"Cleanhead\" after an incident in which his hair was accidentally removed by lye contained in a hair-straightening product, necessitating shaving it off; enamoured of the look, Vinson maintained a shaved head thereafter. Music critic Robert Christgau has called Vinson \"one of the cleanest, and nastiest, blues voices you'll ever hear.\""
tagline: "American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter (1917–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eddie_Vinson.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: "1917-12-18"
deathDate: "1988-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.62
  momentum:             0.3144654088050315
  historical:           11.16875733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8746973/"
    handle:    "nm8746973"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson"
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    title: "Eddie Vinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson"
    title: "Eddie Vinson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson"
    title: "Eddie Vinson"
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    title: "エディ・\"クリーンヘッド\"・ヴィンソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson"
    title: "Eddie Vinson"
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    title: "Винсон, Эдди"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump