# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonny-boy-williamson-i
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:54:04.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonny-boy-williamson-i"
name: "Sonny Boy Williamson I"
slug: "sonny-boy-williamson-i"
description: "John Lee Curtis \"Sonny Boy\" Williamson was an American blues harmonica player and singer-songwriter. He is often regarded as the pioneer of the blues harp as a solo instrument. He played on hundreds of recordings by many pre–World War II blues artists. Under his own name, he was one of the most recorded blues musicians of the 1930s and 1940s and is closely associated with Chicago producer Lester Melrose and Bluebird Records. His popular songs, original or adapted, include \"Good Morning, School Girl\", \"Sugar Mama\", \"Early in the Morning\", and \"Stop Breaking Down\"."
tagline: "American blues musician (1914–1948)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/John_Lee_Williamson.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: "1914-03-30"
deathDate: "1948-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.24032533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump