# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sugar-blue
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:14.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sugar-blue"
name: "Sugar Blue"
slug: "sugar-blue"
description: "James Joshua Whiting, known professionally as Sugar Blue, is an American blues harmonica player. He is best known for playing on the 1978 Rolling Stones album Some Girls, and well as his partnership with blues guitarist Louisiana Red."
tagline: "American blues musician and harmonica player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SugarBlue1988.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: "1949-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.97
  momentum:             0.3536345776031434
  historical:           9.437944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/SugarBlueOfficial"
    handle:    "SugarBlueOfficial"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3HojqGF4FshKki7Ku6gPqE"
    handle:    "3HojqGF4FshKki7Ku6gPqE"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/306715"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%83"
    title: "Шуга Блу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blue"
    title: "Sugar Blue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/18d70123-8356-4ab8-a193-0ce0d58af90b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2363640"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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