# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-st-cyr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:35:40.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnny-st-cyr"
name: "Johnny St. Cyr"
slug: "johnny-st-cyr"
description: "Johnny St. Cyr was an American jazz banjoist and guitarist. He was one of the original pioneers of jazz music, playing banjo and guitar in the bands of Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds and Kid Ory, among others. He started the idea of banjo with jazz, a combination whose impact changed the banjo world during the Jazz years, and continues to have a marked affect. He is best known for writing the songs \"Messin' Around\", \"Buddy's Habit\", \"High Fever\" and \"Oriental Strut\", and for playing the banjo and/or guitar on the Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fate_Marable's_New_Orleans_Band_on_the_S._S._Sidney.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: "1890-04-17"
deathDate: "1966-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.880742666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/307254"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جوني سانت سير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_St._Cyr"
    title: "Johnny St. Cyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_St._Cyr"
    title: "Johnny St. Cyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_St._Cyr"
    title: "Johnny St. Cyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Saint-Cyr"
    title: "Johnny Saint-Cyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_St._Cyr"
    title: "Johnny St. Cyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_St._Cyr"
    title: "Johnny St. Cyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7a281c93-adc9-4426-9331-f5e870162f91"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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