# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-jamerson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:13:29.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-jamerson"
name: "James Jamerson"
slug: "james-jamerson"
description: "James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. As a session musician he played on twenty-three Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, as well as fifty-six R&B number-one hits."
tagline: "American bassist (1936–1983)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/James_Jamerson_-_Detroit_-_1964.jpg"
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: "1936-01-29"
deathDate: "1983-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.21
  momentum:             4.967526803920767
  historical:           17.63269466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Jamerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Jamerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Jamerson"
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    title: "James Jamerson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Jamerson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump