# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-yancey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:59:33.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-yancey"
name: "Jimmy Yancey"
slug: "jimmy-yancey"
description: "James Edward Yancey was an American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist. One reviewer described him as \"one of the pioneers of this raucous, rapid-fire, eight-to-the-bar piano style\"."
tagline: "African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer and lyricist (1898-1951)"
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: "1894-02-20"
deathDate: "1951-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.25
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.35831733333333
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمي يانسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "جيمى يانسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Янси, Джимми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yancey"
    title: "Jimmy Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/78a7f57a-a276-45f6-b63c-96d941e244d2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346384"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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