# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-lee-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:53.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-lee-lewis"
name: "Jerry Lee Lewis"
slug: "jerry-lee-lewis"
description: "Jerry Lee Lewis was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed \"The Killer\", he was described as \"rock 'n' roll's first great wild man\". A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1952 at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, and early recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. He later became known for his chart topping country music recordings from the 1960s and 1970s. \"Crazy Arms\" sold 300,000 copies in the Southern United States, but his 1957 hit \"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On\" shot Lewis to worldwide fame. He followed this with the major hits \"Great Balls of Fire\", \"Breathless\", and \"High School Confidential\"."
tagline: "American rock 'n' roll musician (1935–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Lee_Lewis_1950s_publicity_photo_cropped_retouched.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: "1935-09-29"
deathDate: "2022-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.558405682155719
  historical:           27.19986
  currentAttention:     13.08
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  248
  category: 236
totalFollowers: 31000
platforms:
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    handle:    "jerryleelewisthekiller"
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    handle:    "JerryLeeLewis"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    handle:    "@jerryleelewistv8233"
    followers: 31000
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump