# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lyle-mays
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:13.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lyle-mays"
name: "Lyle Mays"
slug: "lyle-mays"
description: "Lyle David Mays was an American jazz pianist, composer, and member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards."
tagline: "American jazz musician (1953–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lyle_Mays_(4799655574).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-11-27"
deathDate: "2020-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7964970809007506
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "LyleMays"
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    url:       "http://www.lylemays.com/"
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    title: "Lyle Mays"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump