# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merle-haggard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:29:04.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merle-haggard"
name: "Merle Haggard"
slug: "merle-haggard"
description: "Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart."
tagline: "American country music songwriter, singer, and musician (1937–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MerleHaggardJun09.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: "1937-04-06"
deathDate: "2016-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.880372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "2ptmyXoL7poH6Zq62h1QT9"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Merle Haggard"
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    title: "Merle Haggard"
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    title: "Merle Haggard"
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    title: "Merle Haggard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Merle Haggard"
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    title: "Մեռլ Հագարդ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Merle Haggard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump