# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-gurley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:01.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-gurley"
name: "James Gurley"
slug: "james-gurley"
description: "James Martin Gurley was an American musician. He is best known as the principal lead guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic/acid rock band from San Francisco which was fronted by singer Janis Joplin from 1966 to 1968."
tagline: "American musician (1939–2009)"
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: "1939-12-22"
deathDate: "2009-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.713610666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348647/"
    handle:    "nm0348647"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/364699"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمس غورلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gurley"
    title: "James Gurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gurley"
    title: "James Gurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gurley"
    title: "James Gurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gurley"
    title: "James Gurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Гёрли, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/473fec09-277c-4b68-9d9a-f5d354b9901a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2563356"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120058"
    title: "James Gurley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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