# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luther-dixon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:00:46.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luther-dixon"
name: "Luther Dixon"
slug: "luther-dixon"
description: "Luther Dixon was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer. Dixon's songs achieved their greatest success in the 1950s and 1960s, and were recorded by Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Jackson 5, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dusty Springfield, Jimmy Reed and others. As a producer, Dixon helped create the signature sound of the girl group the Shirelles."
tagline: "American songwriter, record producer, singer, conductor (1931-2009)"
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: "1931-08-07"
deathDate: "2009-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.234452
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580537/"
    handle:    "nm1580537"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لوثر ديكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوثر ديكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لوثر دیکسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Dixon"
    title: "Luther Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1a2d3f1a-6146-4fb6-92c7-da4f91bcc44d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6705543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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