# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fats-waller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:23:03.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fats-waller"
name: "Fats Waller"
slug: "fats-waller"
description: "Thomas Wright \"Fats\" Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer. His innovations in the stride style were widely influential among musicians. A popular performer in the jazz age and swing era, he toured internationally, achieving critical and commercial success in the United States and Europe. His best-known songs, \"Ain't Misbehavin'\" and \"Honeysuckle Rose\", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999 respectively."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fats_Waller_edit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1904-05-21"
deathDate: "1943-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.09
  momentum:             5.899010052950657
  historical:           24.345848
  currentAttention:     7.56
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909043/"
    handle:    "nm0909043"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump