# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leroy-carr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:17.771Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leroy-carr"
name: "Leroy Carr"
slug: "leroy-carr"
description: "Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. Music historian Elijah Wald has called him \"the most influential male blues singer and songwriter of the first half of the 20th century\". He first became famous for \"How Long, How Long Blues\", his debut recording released by Vocalion Records in 1928."
tagline: "American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (1905–1935)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Leroy_Carr.jpg"
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: "1905-03-27"
deathDate: "1935-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.67
  momentum:             3.870967741935483
  historical:           19.29917466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Leroy Carr"
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    title: "Λιρόι Καρ"
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    title: "Leroy Carr"
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    title: "Leroy Carr"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump