# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sid-mcginnis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:30:19.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sid-mcginnis"
name: "Sid McGinnis"
slug: "sid-mcginnis"
description: "Sidney Foster McGinnis is an American musician and guitarist, best known for his work on the CBS television show Late Show with David Letterman, as part of the CBS Orchestra."
tagline: "American musician"
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: "1949-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.74
  momentum:             4.221105527638191
  historical:           8.171061333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569375/"
    handle:    "nm0569375"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/341047"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "سيد مكجينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_McGinnis"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_McGinnis"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_McGinnis"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_McGinnis"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_McGinnis"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_McGinnis"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f3c88ab0-3cb0-4ad1-994c-85c145cc64e8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2471927"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3819357"
    title: "Sid McGinnis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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