# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grandpa-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:47:52.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/grandpa-jones"
name: "Grandpa Jones"
slug: "grandpa-jones"
description: "Louis Marshall Jones, known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer. He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978."
tagline: "American banjo player and singer (1913–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Louis_%27Grandpa%27_Jones.jpg"
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: "1913-10-20"
deathDate: "1998-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             1.531435901127595
  historical:           10.08245066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428169/"
    handle:    "nm0428169"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UtCcZQl7xzvEao4vWBSOD"
    handle:    "2UtCcZQl7xzvEao4vWBSOD"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%BE%D8%A7_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جراندپا چونيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandpa_Jones"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8488e884-f8b9-4c31-a6ec-a92be00d450f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1787844"
    title: "Grandpa Jones"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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