# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tampa-red
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:05.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tampa-red"
name: "Tampa Red"
slug: "tampa-red"
description: "Hudson Whittaker, better known by his stage name Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician. His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James."
tagline: "American Chicago blues musician (1904-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tampa-in-beret_zpsd4275d4e.webp?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: "1904-01-08"
deathDate: "1981-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.96
  momentum:             1.363636363636364
  historical:           15.13251066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3052515/"
    handle:    "nm3052515"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تامپا ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%94_%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "טמפה רד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89"
    title: "タンパ・レッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Тампа Ред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Red"
    title: "Tampa Red"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1b62df85-00d2-464f-81bc-a5c0cdcad278"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1345751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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