# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/snooky-pryor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:42:42.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/snooky-pryor"
name: "Snooky Pryor"
slug: "snooky-pryor"
description: "James Edward \"Snooky\" Pryor was an American Chicago blues harmonica player. He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records, in the late 1940s, he did not use this method. In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Chicago blues harmonica player (1921-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Snooky_Pryor.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: "1921-09-15"
deathDate: "2006-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28218266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/435932"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "سنوكى پريور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC"
    title: "スヌーキー・プライアー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor"
    title: "Snooky Pryor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Снуки Прайор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f1027a6e-4a7b-465b-814d-a93a1941ed1e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1286510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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