# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sil-austin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:42:24.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sil-austin"
name: "Sil Austin"
slug: "sil-austin"
description: "Sylvester Austin was an American jazz saxophonist. He achieved his biggest success in an overtly commercial rather than jazz vein, but he regarded Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Sonny Stitt as his major influences."
tagline: "American jazz saxophonist (1929–2001)"
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: "1929-09-17"
deathDate: "2001-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.009864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/347270"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "سيل اوستن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sil_Austin"
    title: "Sil Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sil_Austin"
    title: "Sil Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3"
    title: "シル・オースチン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A4_%EC%98%A4%EC%8A%A4%ED%8B%B4"
    title: "실 오스틴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sil_Austin"
    title: "Sil Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f8a10e22-e902-41d8-bc60-39562c4b1427"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1690247"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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