# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/julius-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:53:26.390Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/julius-watkins"
name: "Julius Watkins"
slug: "julius-watkins"
description: "Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician who played French horn. Described by AllMusic as \"virtually the father of the jazz French horn\", Watkins won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for Miscellaneous Instrument."
tagline: "American jazz musician (1921-1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Quincy_Jones_Orchestra_1960_(JOKAHBL3E_A05-3).tif?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: "1921-10-10"
deathDate: "1977-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.217748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "يوليوس واتكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Watkins"
    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Watkins"
    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Watkins"
    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Watkins"
    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%88%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジュリアス・ワトキンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Watkins"
    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Watkins"
    title: "Julius Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec4d5918-4e2a-4b4f-8677-0bcff102cc1b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1357150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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