# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-graham
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:53:41.777Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-graham"
name: "Larry Graham"
slug: "larry-graham"
description: "Larry Graham Jr. is an American bassist and baritone singer, with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station. In 1980, he released the single \"One in a Million You\", which reached the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100. He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique on the electric bass guitar, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as \"thumpin' and pluckin'\"."
tagline: "American bassist and singer (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Larry_Graham.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: "1946-08-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.032372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2191409/"
    handle:    "nm2191409"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lUcc15t11bnaPr2qOuFs2"
    handle:    "6lUcc15t11bnaPr2qOuFs2"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.larrygraham.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لاري غراهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لارى جراهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "لری قراهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9D"
    title: "לארי גראהם"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ラリー・グラハム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%82"
    title: "ലാരി ഗ്രഹാം"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Грэм, Ларри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Ларрі Грем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Graham"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/87982d06-55e1-456c-a11e-9911cc320f45"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234944"
    title: "Larry Graham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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