# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/junior-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:37:22.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/junior-wells"
name: "Junior Wells"
slug: "junior-wells"
description: "Junior Wells was an American singer, harmonica player, and recording artist. He is best known for his signature song \"Messin' with the Kid\" and his 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues, described by the critic Bill Dahl as \"one of the truly classic blues albums of the 1960s\". Wells himself categorized his music as rhythm and blues."
tagline: "American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist (1934–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Junior_Wells_1983.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: "1934-12-09"
deathDate: "1998-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump