# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-wofford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:32:31.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-wofford"
name: "Mike Wofford"
slug: "mike-wofford"
description: "Michael Wofford was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was an accompanist to singers Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald (1989–1994). He was known in the jazz community going back to the 1960s for the albums Strawberry Wine and Summer Night. He performed with Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Joe Pass, Shelly Manne, Kenny Burrell, and Zoot Sims."
tagline: "American pianist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/13/Mike_Wofford.webp/330px-Mike_Wofford.webp.png"
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: "1938-02-25"
deathDate: "2025-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.76
  momentum:             0.909090909090909
  historical:           9.872606666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3772701/"
    handle:    "nm3772701"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mikewofford.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايك ووفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mike Wofford"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wofford"
    title: "Mike Wofford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wofford"
    title: "Mike Wofford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wofford"
    title: "Mike Wofford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wofford"
    title: "Mike Wofford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マイク・ウォフォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wofford"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump