# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-usher
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:51:18.125Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-usher"
name: "Gary Usher"
slug: "gary-usher"
description: "Gary Lee Usher was an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer, who worked with numerous California acts in the 1960s, including the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and Dick Dale. Usher also produced fictitious surf groups or hot rod groups, mixing studio session musicians with his own associates. These bands included the Super Stocks, the Kickstands, the Hondells with their No. 9 US pop single \"Little Honda\", and Sagittarius."
tagline: "American musician (1938–1990)"
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: "1938-12-14"
deathDate: "1990-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.657384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882319/"
    handle:    "nm0882319"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/269419"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "جارى اشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Usher"
    title: "Gary Usher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Usher"
    title: "Gary Usher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ゲイリー・アッシャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Usher"
    title: "Gary Usher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bc97c42e-0a22-4820-ab28-860a0a5147db"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5526080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2461559"
    title: "Gary Usher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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