# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-genus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:06:17.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-genus"
name: "James Genus"
slug: "james-genus"
description: "James Genus is an American jazz bassist. He plays both electric bass guitar and upright bass and currently plays in the Saturday Night Live Band. He also occasionally fills in for Mark Kelley of the hip hop band The Roots. Genus has performed as a session musician and sideman throughout his career, having worked with an extensive list of artists."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Genus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1966-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.837476
  currentAttention:     4.16
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jamesgenus.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/272435"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Genus"
    title: "James Genus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Genus"
    title: "James Genus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Genus"
    title: "James Genus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Genus"
    title: "James Genus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Genus"
    title: "James Genus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Genus"
    title: "James Genus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a926a091-d818-4fdd-959d-a2362d63324c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1386801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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