# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:12:44.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-lewis"
name: "Eric Lewis"
slug: "eric-lewis"
description: "Eric Robert Lewis, popularly known as ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found cross-over success playing rock and pop music. He is known for his unconventional and physical playing style, which eschews a piano bench and includes reaching inside the piano lid to pull at the strings directly, as well as the creation that he calls \"Rockjazz\", a genre that \"takes the improvisational aspect of jazz and 'threads it through the eye of the needle of rock.'\""
tagline: "American jazz pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Lewis-33.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: "1973-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.812276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507174/"
    handle:    "nm0507174"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/261679"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اريك لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اريك لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lewis"
    title: "Eric Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lewis_(pianist)"
    title: "Eric Lewis (pianist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lewis_(pianista)"
    title: "Eric Lewis (pianista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b9414fa7-828f-48da-8210-c99a74b295fd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5386963"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4723860"
    title: "Eric Lewis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump