# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lonnie-liston-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:29:16.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lonnie-liston-smith"
name: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
slug: "lonnie-liston-smith"
description: "Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. is an American jazz, soul, and funk pianist and keyboardist who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion, smooth jazz and acid jazz genres."
tagline: "American pianist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lonnie_Liston_Smith_Glastonbury_2009-1.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: "1940-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.07823333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.lonnielistonsmith.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لونى ليستون سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Liston_Smith"
    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Liston_Smith"
    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Liston_Smith"
    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Liston_Smith"
    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ロニー・リストン・スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Liston_Smith"
    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Листон Смит, Лонни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lonnie Liston Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b7eb7b38-7f51-45e9-b583-64303b24eabe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump