# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonny-lester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:37.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonny-lester"
name: "Sonny Lester"
slug: "sonny-lester"
description: "Sumner Lester, better known as Sonny Lester, was an American Grammy-award-winning music producer from New York City. He started his career as a musician in a big band jazz ensemble before being drafted into the U.S. Army. During the war he earned a Purple Heart and worked under Henry Kissinger, who was an intelligence officer at the time. Lester's recordings have been distributed by labels including Blue Note, United Artists, Capitol, Denon and CBS Records."
tagline: "American record producer (1924–2018)"
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: "1924-11-15"
deathDate: "2018-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.52
  momentum:             3.486842105263158
  historical:           9.20738
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/202256"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سوني ليستير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سونى ليستير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "سانی لستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Lester"
    title: "Sonny Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Lester"
    title: "Sonny Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Lester"
    title: "Sonny Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "سانی لستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Lester"
    title: "Sonny Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Lester"
    title: "Sonny Lester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b4b06710-88ba-4489-82fd-69e99046442f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1366979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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