# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonny-terry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:45:03.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonny-terry"
name: "Sonny Terry"
slug: "sonny-terry"
description: "Saunders Terrell, known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts."
tagline: "American Piedmont blues musician (1911–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonny_Terry_at_the_Nambassa_3_day_Music_%26_Alternatives_festival%2C_New_Zealand_1981._Photographer_Michael_Bennetts.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: "1911-10-24"
deathDate: "1986-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.34867466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856079/"
    handle:    "nm0856079"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump