# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leland-sklar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:38:34.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leland-sklar"
name: "Leland Sklar"
slug: "leland-sklar"
description: "Leland Bruce Sklar is an American bassist and session musician. He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylum Records' artists that they became known as Asylum's de facto house band, as those artists became iconic singer-songwriters of the 1970s."
tagline: "American bassist and session musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leland_Sklar_2017.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: "1947-05-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           71.92
  momentum:             1.116291677961507
  historical:           16.07147733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 263000
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0804452/"
    handle:    "nm0804452"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4JaWVEDKP7JzDNgr91dgva"
    handle:    "4JaWVEDKP7JzDNgr91dgva"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs5yDeiOgkyRZGZGphlSbIw"
    handle:    "@lelandsklar6363"
    followers: 263000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ليلاند سكلار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "リーランド・スカラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9c840b50-e89f-4eb4-8aac-695fdbbfc8a2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110038"
    title: "Leland Sklar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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