# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-wyands
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:17:41.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-wyands"
name: "Richard Wyands"
slug: "richard-wyands"
description: "Richard Francis Wyands was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, best known for his work as a side-man."
tagline: "Hard bop pianist (1928–2019)"
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: "1928-07-02"
deathDate: "2019-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.82
  momentum:             0.5882352941176471
  historical:           7.010368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/278730"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ريتشارد واينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wyands"
    title: "Richard Wyands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wyands"
    title: "Richard Wyands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA"
    title: "リチャード・ワイアンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wyands"
    title: "Richard Wyands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%94%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81"
    title: "Річард Ваєндс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c7f9dc85-ebff-4a0c-8957-ceec49387371"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2150973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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