# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hank-crawford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:25:58.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hank-crawford"
name: "Hank Crawford"
slug: "hank-crawford"
description: "Bennie Ross \"Hank\" Crawford, Jr. was an American alto saxophonist, pianist, arranger and songwriter whose genres ranged from R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, and soul jazz. Crawford was musical director for Ray Charles before embarking on a solo career releasing many well-regarded albums for labels such as Atlantic, CTI and Milestone."
tagline: "American saxophonist (1934-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hankcrawford.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: "1934-12-21"
deathDate: "2009-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.96886533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "هانك كروفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "هانک کروفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Crawford"
    title: "Hank Crawford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7892bb19-96be-4e3a-b537-208700210a3f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354165"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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