# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-battiste
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:11.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-battiste"
name: "Harold Battiste"
slug: "harold-battiste"
description: "Harold Raymond Battiste Jr. was an American music composer, arranger, performer, and teacher. A native of, and later community leader in, New Orleans, he is best known for his work as an arranger on records by Barbara George, Sam Cooke, Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Sonny and Cher, Dr. John, and others."
tagline: "American music composer, arranger, performer, and teacher (1931–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_Battiste_Satchmo_SummerFest_2012.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: "1931-10-28"
deathDate: "2015-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.691038666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0061448/"
    handle:    "nm0061448"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/292367"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "هارولد باتيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Battiste"
    title: "Harold Battiste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Battiste"
    title: "Harold Battiste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88"
    title: "ハロルド・バティスト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%B4%EB%9F%B4%EB%93%9C_%EB%B0%B0%ED%8B%B0%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8"
    title: "해럴드 배티스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Battiste"
    title: "Harold Battiste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Battiste"
    title: "Harold Battiste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/11cb30c7-5ad6-4c7d-b6ec-ad7d2334d189"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1327228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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