# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vassar-clements
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:23.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vassar-clements"
name: "Vassar Clements"
slug: "vassar-clements"
description: "Vassar Carlton Clements was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018."
tagline: "American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler (1928–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vassar_Clements%2C_Seattle%2C_1974.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-04-25"
deathDate: "2005-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.389601333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166269/"
    handle:    "nm0166269"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ڤاسار كليمينتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vassar Clements"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vassar Clements"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassar_Clements"
    title: "Vassar Clements"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassar_Clements"
    title: "Vassar Clements"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84"
    title: "バッサー・クレメンツ"
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    title: "Vassar Clements"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump