# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-winter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:19:40.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnny-winter"
name: "Johnny Winter"
slug: "johnny-winter"
description: "John Dawson Winter III was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums, live performances, and slide guitar playing from the late 1960s into the early 2000s. He also produced three Grammy Award–winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the \"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\"."
tagline: "American blues guitarist and singer (1944–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnny_Winter1990.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1944-02-23"
deathDate: "2014-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump