# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/smiley-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:35:45.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/smiley-lewis"
name: "Smiley Lewis"
slug: "smiley-lewis"
description: "Overton Amos Lemons, known as Smiley Lewis, was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues singer and guitarist. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that \"Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking, small-band numbers like 'The Bells Are Ringing' and 'I Hear You Knocking' only to have Fats Domino come up behind him with similar music with a more ingratiating delivery. Lewis was practically drowned in Domino's backwash.\""
tagline: "American musician (1913-1966)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Smiley-Lewis-1.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: "1913-07-05"
deathDate: "1966-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.76
  momentum:             5.670731707317072
  historical:           7.693738666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/332323"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Lewis"
    title: "Smiley Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Lewis"
    title: "Smiley Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Lewis"
    title: "Smiley Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Lewis"
    title: "Smiley Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Lewis"
    title: "Smiley Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Lewis"
    title: "Smiley Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "スマイリー・ルイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/635ea8d8-6c2d-42ef-b685-667768bf80e5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708922"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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