# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-shearing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:54.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-shearing"
name: "George Shearing"
slug: "george-shearing"
description: "Sir George Albert Shearing was a British jazz pianist and composer who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards \"Lullaby of Birdland\" and \"Conception\", and had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s."
tagline: "British-American jazz pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Shearing_1959.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-08-13"
deathDate: "2011-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.09544133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://georgeshearing.net/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump