# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-poyser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:14:08.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-poyser"
name: "James Poyser"
slug: "james-poyser"
description: "James Jason Poyser is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the hip-hop band The Roots since 2009, and plays with The Roots in the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and formerly, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
tagline: "American record producer and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Poyser.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: "1967-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.06
  momentum:             0.730593607305936
  historical:           7.10152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/21363"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چيمس پويسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Poyser"
    title: "James Poyser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Poyser"
    title: "James Poyser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Poyser"
    title: "James Poyser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Пойзер, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Poyser"
    title: "James Poyser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fde17fa5-3238-439f-ab1c-c37671e3c3b3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4368975"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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