# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-hey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:12:43.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-hey"
name: "Jerry Hey"
slug: "jerry-hey"
description: "Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's Thriller, \"Rock with You\", \"Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough\", \"Workin’ Day and Night\" and the flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit \"Longer\". He has performed with artists such as George Benson, Nik Kershaw, Al Jarreau, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, George Duke, Lionel Richie, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Patti Austin, Toshiki Kadomatsu, and Yumi Matsutoya."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Hey_(cropped).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: "1950-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.762750666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382154/"
    handle:    "nm0382154"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.heyhorns.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/255142"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "جيري هاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hey"
    title: "Jerry Hey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hey"
    title: "Jerry Hey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hey"
    title: "Jerry Hey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ジェリー・ヘイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Hey"
    title: "Jerry Hey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a7d6692-c076-4d69-b1c7-6bfe6a62d5ba"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6183733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76152"
    title: "Jerry Hey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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