# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-lay
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:05:51.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-lay"
name: "Sam Lay"
slug: "sam-lay"
description: "Samuel Julian Lay was an American drummer and vocalist who performed from the late 1950s as a blues and R&B musician alongside Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Paul Butterfield, and many others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015."
tagline: "American drummer and vocalist (1935–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Lay_2012.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: "1935-03-20"
deathDate: "2022-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.09492666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955916/"
    handle:    "nm1955916"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.samlayinbluesland.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5c8c2828-fd9d-472a-9c03-083d9335933f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "سام لاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "سام لاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lay"
    title: "Sam Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lay"
    title: "Sam Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lay"
    title: "Sam Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lay"
    title: "Sam Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lay"
    title: "Sam Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8D%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Лэй, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lay"
    title: "Sam Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Сем Лей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2216509"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181343"
    title: "Sam Laybourne"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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