# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-sparks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:54.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-sparks"
name: "Melvin Sparks"
slug: "melvin-sparks"
description: "Melvin Sparks was an American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist. He recorded a number of albums for Prestige Records, later recording for Savant Records. He appeared on several recordings with musicians including Lou Donaldson, Sonny Stitt, Leon Spencer and Johnny Hammond Smith."
tagline: "American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist (1946–2011)"
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: "1946-03-22"
deathDate: "2011-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.44
  momentum:             0.7964601769911503
  historical:           8.351729333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.melvinsparks.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ملفين سباركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Sparks"
    title: "Melvin Sparks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/06ec79de-1ab8-483d-bbea-33aded2c7d50"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1283540"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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