# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:36:20.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-brown"
name: "Mel Brown"
slug: "mel-brown"
description: "Mel Brown was an American-born blues guitarist and singer. He is best remembered for his decade-long backing of Bobby Bland, although in his own right Brown recorded over a dozen albums between 1967 and 2006."
tagline: "American jazz guitarist (1939–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mel_Brown.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: "1939-10-07"
deathDate: "2009-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.682722666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6841580/"
    handle:    "nm6841580"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.melbrownblues.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/135922"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ميل برون (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brown"
    title: "Mel Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brown_(Musiker%2C_1939)"
    title: "Mel Brown (Musiker, 1939)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brown_(guitarist)"
    title: "Mel Brown (guitarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brown_(chitarrista)"
    title: "Mel Brown (chitarrista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brown"
    title: "Mel Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB_(%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD)"
    title: "Браун, Мел (блюзмен)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/12573383-f8ce-44ba-a1de-44348aefe7e9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1918885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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