# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-andrew
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:21:57.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-andrew"
name: "Sam Andrew"
slug: "sam-andrew"
description: "Sam Houston Andrew III was an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, composer, artist and founding member and guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company. During his career as musician and composer, Andrew had three platinum albums and two hit singles. His songs have been used in numerous major motion picture soundtracks and documentaries."
tagline: "American musician/singer/songwriter/composer/artist (1941–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/SAm_Andrew.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: "1941-12-18"
deathDate: "2015-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.81
  momentum:             0.25625
  historical:           9.259076
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/446568"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "سام أندرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "سام اندرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "سام اندرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Andrew"
    title: "Sam Andrew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Andrew"
    title: "Sam Andrew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Andrew"
    title: "Sam Andrew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Andrew"
    title: "Sam Andrew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Andrew"
    title: "Sam Andrew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%8E%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Эндрю, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b115381a-bbab-4c74-a2da-ff739edb5649"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4531870"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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