# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/everett-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:19:31.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/everett-lee"
name: "Everett Lee"
slug: "everett-lee"
description: "Everett Astor Lee was an American symphonic conductor, opera music director, violinist and music scholar. He was the first African American to conduct a Broadway musical, the first to \"conduct an established symphony orchestra below the Mason–Dixon line\", and the first to conduct a performance by a major American opera company."
tagline: "American conductor (1916–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Everett_Lee_LCCN2004663200.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: "1916-08-31"
deathDate: "2022-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.33
  momentum:             1.422018348623853
  historical:           7.875630666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "إيفرت لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "اورت لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Lee"
    title: "Everett Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5943356"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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