# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddie-waits
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:55.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddie-waits"
name: "Freddie Waits"
slug: "freddie-waits"
description: "Frederick Douglas Waits was an American hard bop and post-bop drummer."
tagline: "American musician (1940–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freddie_Waits_by_Tom_Marcello.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: "1940-04-27"
deathDate: "1989-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.73
  momentum:             0.394736842105263
  historical:           6.145321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/282540"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Waits"
    title: "Freddie Waits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Waits"
    title: "Freddie Waits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Waits"
    title: "Freddie Waits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Waits"
    title: "Freddie Waits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Waits"
    title: "Freddie Waits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5a41ae0c-66b5-41b6-a53f-7fb98030b849"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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