# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miles-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:47:30.580Z

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name: "Miles Davis"
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description: "He kept turning the corner just as the rest of jazz caught up. Five decades, maybe seven distinct styles — bebop, cool jazz, modal, fusion — and each time he moved, the genre's center of gravity moved with him."
tagline: "American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)"
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birthDate: "1926-05-26"
deathDate: "1991-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
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totalFollowers: 24200
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Miles Dewey Davis III was born into an upper-class Illinois family in 1926 and picked up trumpet as a teenager. He dropped out of Juilliard to play in Charlie Parker's bebop quintet, then recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions that helped define that sound. A heroin addiction shadowed the early 1950s, but a comeback at Newport in 1955 led to Columbia Records and 'Round About Midnight with John Coltrane and Paul Chambers. Kind of Blue followed in 1959 — still the bestselling jazz album ever, more than six million copies worldwide — and through the 1960s he cycled lineups and styles, from orchestral work with Gil Evans to the post-bop abstractions of his second great quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. In 1969 he went electric with In a Silent Way, then Bitches Brew the next year, fusing jazz with rock and funk in ways that split the audience and sold a million records. After five years off for health, he returned in the 1980s with pop-leaning albums and sold-out tours, working until a stroke and pneumonia killed him in 1991 at sixty-five.