# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mayo-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:08:56.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mayo-thompson"
name: "Mayo Thompson"
slug: "mayo-thompson"
description: "Mayo Joseph Thompson Jr. is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the experimental rock band Red Krayola. He released his only solo album Corky's Debt to His Father in 1970, and later collaborated with the English conceptual art collective Art & Language. He formed the band Saddlesore with Rick Barthelme, Frank Davis and Cassell Webb in 1971, and the Rockin' Blue Diamonds in 1972 with Barthelme, Rock Romano and Tucker Bradley. He later worked with Greek composer Manos Hatzidakis and artist Robert Rauschenberg."
tagline: "American musician and visual artist (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Red_Krayola-3.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: "1944-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.900722666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/96303"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مايو تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مایو تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Thompson"
    title: "Mayo Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Thompson"
    title: "Mayo Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Thompson"
    title: "Mayo Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Thompson"
    title: "Mayo Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE"
    title: "Томпсон, Майо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b463f760-e381-462a-b060-78606b78e5e1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1401107"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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