# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lester-lanin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:59:03.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lester-lanin"
name: "Lester Lanin"
slug: "lester-lanin"
description: "Nathaniel Lester Lanin was an American jazz and pop music bandleader. He was famous for long, smoothly arranged medleys, at a consistent rhythm and tempo, which were designed for continuous dancing. Lanin's career began in the late 1920s and his popularity increased through the advent of the LP era. His music remained very popular among fans of the ballroom dance world. Starting with Epic Records in the middle of the 1950s, he recorded a string of albums for several labels, many of which hit the US Billboard 200."
tagline: "American musician (1907-2004)"
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: "1907-08-26"
deathDate: "2004-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.58
  momentum:             0.3303303303303303
  historical:           7.679050666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486857/"
    handle:    "nm0486857"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lesterlanin.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/600226"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليستير لانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Lanin"
    title: "Lester Lanin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Lanin"
    title: "Lester Lanin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Lanin"
    title: "Lester Lanin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Lanin"
    title: "Lester Lanin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Ланин, Лестер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f54a6b4-b389-4957-be00-bed5055b6c0c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2238570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1834200"
    title: "Lester Lanin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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