# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/les-baxter
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:21:25.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/les-baxter"
name: "Les Baxter"
slug: "les-baxter"
description: "Leslie Thompson Baxter was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica, and scored over 250 radio, television and motion pictures numbers."
tagline: "American musician, singer, composer (1922–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Les_Baxter.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: "1922-03-14"
deathDate: "1996-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.85
  momentum:             1.482239366927391
  historical:           16.544648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005958/"
    handle:    "nm0005958"
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    handle:    "35pV6EUbherudlvAftoueR"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lesbaxter.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter"
    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter"
    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter"
    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter"
    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бакстер, Лес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لیس بیکسٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99452"
    title: "Les Baxter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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