# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-myers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:20.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-myers"
name: "Sam Myers"
slug: "sam-myers"
description: "Samuel Joseph Myers was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player. For nearly two decades he was the featured vocalist for Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets."
tagline: "American blues musician and songwriter (1936-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Myers.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: "1936-02-19"
deathDate: "2006-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.41
  momentum:             3.478260869565216
  historical:           9.612168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/599725"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "سام مايرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers"
    title: "Sam Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers"
    title: "Sam Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers"
    title: "Sam Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "سم مایرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers"
    title: "Sam Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers"
    title: "Sam Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82)"
    title: "Майерс, Сэм (музыкант)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers"
    title: "Sam Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7d1829ee-5305-4662-9bc9-216953bb5e7d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725900"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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