# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rufus-payne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:47:48.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rufus-payne"
name: "Rufus Payne"
slug: "rufus-payne"
description: "Rufus \"Tee Tot\" Payne was an early-20th-century African-American blues musician from Greenville, Alabama, who was more widely known by his nickname Tee Tot."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rufus_Payne_Epitaph.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: "1900"
deathDate: "1939-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.204325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/36320c56-a1cb-4c00-bca0-c49d07a8bdc7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روفوس باين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روفوس باين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "روفوس باین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Payne"
    title: "Rufus Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Payne"
    title: "Rufus Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ルーファス・ペイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2174802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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