# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:20:16.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-lewis"
name: "Mel Lewis"
slug: "mel-lewis"
description: "Melvin Sokoloff, known professionally as Mel Lewis, was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations."
tagline: "American musician (1929–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MelLewis-1979.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: "1929-05-10"
deathDate: "1990-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.76
  momentum:             0.0819672131147541
  historical:           14.91537466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507542/"
    handle:    "nm0507542"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/265390"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ميل لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "میل لویس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "メル・ルイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Lewis"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Льюис, Мел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e5a7e88a-9c16-4a6b-829b-7ed30929ab44"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31229"
    title: "Mel Lewis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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