# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:29:13.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-lewis"
name: "Henry Lewis"
slug: "henry-lewis"
description: "Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor whose career extended over four decades. A child prodigy, he joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and, later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the United States. As musical director of the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, he supported America's cultural diplomacy initiatives in Europe after World War II."
tagline: "American conductor (1932-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Lewis_1961.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: "1932-10-16"
deathDate: "1996-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.6198
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/795184"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B9)"
    title: "هنري لويس (موزع)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "هنرى لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lewis_(Dirigent)"
    title: "Henry Lewis (Dirigent)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lewis_(musician)"
    title: "Henry Lewis (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lewis"
    title: "Henry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "הנרי לואיס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lewis"
    title: "Henry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヘンリー・ルイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lewis"
    title: "Henry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6b142c14-a64b-4e76-ad57-721ae62a3a71"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457501"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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