# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-haynes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:50:38.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-haynes"
name: "Roy Haynes"
slug: "roy-haynes"
description: "Roy Owen Haynes was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname \"Snap Crackle\" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career spanning more than eight decades, he played swing, bebop, jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He is considered to be a pioneer of jazz drumming."
tagline: "American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_Haynes_drummer_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1925-03-13"
deathDate: "2024-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.343681785107931
  historical:           22.50170533333334
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371542/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump