# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-burks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:29:28.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-burks"
name: "Michael Burks"
slug: "michael-burks"
description: "Michael Burks was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks, \"Everybody's Got Their Hand Out\", \"I Smell Smoke\" and \"Hard Come, Easy Go\", and variously worked with Johnnie Taylor, O. V. Wright, and Marquise Knox. He was the son of the bassist, Frederick Burks."
tagline: "American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (1957–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Burks_in_Iceland.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: "1957-07-30"
deathDate: "2012-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.22
  momentum:             9.345494522351617
  historical:           6.824012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MichaelBurks57"
    handle:    "MichaelBurks57"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/19YeucN49a9jRiTyseG6a6"
    handle:    "19YeucN49a9jRiTyseG6a6"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://web.archive.org/web/20120525020718/http://www.michaelburks.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1798351"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "ميخائيل بيركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "مايكل بيركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burks"
    title: "Michael Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burks"
    title: "Michael Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burks"
    title: "Michael Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Бёркс, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/090c5dfd-9d8a-42dc-a555-8d566d8680c9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1927097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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