# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/red-prysock
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:39:01.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/red-prysock"
name: "Red Prysock"
slug: "red-prysock"
description: "Wilburt \"Red\" Prysock was an American R&B tenor saxophonist, one of the early Coleman Hawkins-influenced saxophonists to move in the direction of rhythm and blues, rather than bebop."
tagline: "American rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(Portrait_of_Tiny_Grimes%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_between_1946_and_1948)_(LOC)_(5306976800).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: "1926-02-02"
deathDate: "1993-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.53
  momentum:             0.299625468164794
  historical:           7.0099
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/721517"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "ريد پريسوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Prysock"
    title: "Red Prysock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Prysock"
    title: "Red Prysock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Prysock"
    title: "Red Prysock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Prysock"
    title: "Red Prysock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Prysock"
    title: "Red Prysock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1657d900-d7cf-4016-9cdc-2baba1cb037b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4797616"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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