# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taj-mahal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:43:55.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taj-mahal"
name: "Taj Mahal"
slug: "taj-mahal"
description: "Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments along with singing and whistling, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific."
tagline: "American blues musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taj_Mahal_(musician).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: "1942-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           70.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.17915333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 31000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kingbmahal"
    handle:    "kingbmahal"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/tajmahal"
    handle:    "tajmahal"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536737/"
    handle:    "nm0536737"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1aTDTChWWyiJH3SEnYrdVp"
    handle:    "1aTDTChWWyiJH3SEnYrdVp"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tajblues.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCIi2-PY_EP6il-Tossk8Sg"
    handle:    "@tajmahalmusic"
    followers: 31000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "تاج محل (فنان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%89)"
    title: "تاج محل (مغنى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "تاج محل (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(soner)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (soner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(m%C3%BAsic)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (músic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(hudebn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (hudebník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musiker)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(Musiker)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musician)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(muzikisto)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (muzikisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "تاج محل (موسیقی‌دان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(muusikko)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (muusikko)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musicien)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(muzikant)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (muzikant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(zen%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (zenész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B9%D5%A1%D5%BB_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%AC_(%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AA%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%BF)"
    title: "Թաջ Մահալ (երաժիշտ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musicista)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "タジ・マハール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%EC%A7%80_%EB%A7%88%ED%95%A0_(%EC%9D%8C%EC%95%85%EA%B0%80)"
    title: "타지 마할 (음악가)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(muzikant)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (muzikant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikaren_Taj_Mahal"
    title: "Musikaren Taj Mahal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(musiker)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_(muzyk)"
    title: "Taj Mahal (muzyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4f48167c-29b8-4bde-a749-6803ce0a3922"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94511"
    title: "Taj Mahal"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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