# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-ayers
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:19:32.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-ayers"
name: "Roy Ayers"
slug: "roy-ayers"
description: "Roy Edward Ayers Jr. was an American vibraphonist, record producer, and composer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several studio albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped to pioneer jazz-funk. He was a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been described as \"The Godfather of Neo Soul\". He was best known for his compositions \"Everybody Loves the Sunshine\", \"Running Away\", and \"Freaky Deaky\" and others that charted in the 1970s. At one time, Ayers was listed among the performers whose music was most often sampled by rappers."
tagline: "American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer (1940–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_Ayers_2019_Glastonbury_Festival_09_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-09-10"
deathDate: "2025-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump