# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-petway
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:53:54.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-petway"
name: "Robert Petway"
slug: "robert-petway"
description: "Robert Petway was an American blues singer and guitarist. He recorded only 16 songs, but it has been said that he was an influence on many notable blues and rock musicians, including John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix. There is only one known picture of Petway, a publicity photo from 1941. His birth name may have been Pettyway, Pitway, Petaway, or similar."
tagline: "African-American blues singer and guitarist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Robert_Petway.jpg"
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: "1907-10-18"
deathDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.75
  momentum:             0.9677419354838709
  historical:           6.818324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/505549"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "روبيرت پيتواى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petway"
    title: "Robert Petway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petway"
    title: "Robert Petway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petway"
    title: "Robert Petway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petway"
    title: "Robert Petway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Petway"
    title: "Robert Petway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4c94d44b-406d-4d12-8f2f-16166155af52"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324424"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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