# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-liggins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:46:50.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-liggins"
name: "Joe Liggins"
slug: "joe-liggins"
description: "Joseph Christopher Liggins Jr. was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist who led Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers in the 1940s and 1950s. His band appeared often on the Billboard magazine charts. The band's biggest hit was \"The Honeydripper\", released in 1945. Joe Liggins was the older brother of R&B performer Jimmy Liggins."
tagline: "American R&B, jazz and blues pianist (1915–1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Joe_Liggins.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: "1915-07-09"
deathDate: "1987-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.881894666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/322308"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "چوى ليجينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Liggins"
    title: "Joe Liggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Liggins"
    title: "Joe Liggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Liggins"
    title: "Joe Liggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョー・リギンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Liggins"
    title: "Joe Liggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Liggins"
    title: "Joe Liggins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0f466952-be31-4c2e-a74c-daf799d89ab3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974670"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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