# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-silver
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:26:23.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-silver"
name: "Horace Silver"
slug: "horace-silver"
description: "Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horace_Silver_by_Dmitri_Savitski_1989.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-09-02"
deathDate: "2014-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           23.759424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 9340
platforms:
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    title: "ჰორას სილვერი"
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    title: "Horace Silver"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump