# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:31.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-allen"
name: "Lee Allen"
slug: "lee-allen"
description: "Lee Francis Allen was an American tenor saxophone player. Phil Alvin, Allen's bandmate in The Blasters, called him one of the most important instrumentalists in rock'n'roll. Allen's distinctive tone has been hailed as \"one of the defining sounds of rock'n'roll\" and \"one of the DNA strands of rock.\""
tagline: "American saxophonist (1927-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Allen.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: "1926-07-02"
deathDate: "1994-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.886430666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/409585"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "لي ألين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Allen"
    title: "Lee Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Allen_(musician)"
    title: "Lee Allen (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Allen"
    title: "Lee Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "リー・アレン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Allen_(saxofonist)"
    title: "Lee Allen (saxofonist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Allen"
    title: "Lee Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3b5e607d-7d23-451d-9417-6af486782e6a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355502"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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