# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erroll-garner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:42:19.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erroll-garner"
name: "Erroll Garner"
slug: "erroll-garner"
description: "Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad \"Misty\", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1921–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Erroll_Garner%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_between_1946_and_1948_(gottlieb).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1921-06-15"
deathDate: "1977-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.04255319148936
  historical:           23.566804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump