# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonny-red
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:49:03.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonny-red"
name: "Sonny Red"
slug: "sonny-red"
description: "Sylvester Kyner Jr., known as Sonny Red, was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist and composer associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles."
tagline: "American jazz saxophonist and composer (1932–1981)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Sonny_Red_Kyner.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: "1932-12-17"
deathDate: "1981-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             10
  historical:           10.28801466666667
  currentAttention:     34.64
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "سوني ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "سونی رید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89"
    title: "ソニー・レッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Red"
    title: "Sonny Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/465406f7-c9cb-4812-a67a-793fa1742458"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2302304"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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