# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernon-reid
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:08.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vernon-reid"
name: "Vernon Reid"
slug: "vernon-reid"
description: "Vernon Alphonsus Reid is a British-born American guitarist, producer, and songwriter best known as the founder of the rock band Living Colour. Reid was named No. 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and in August 2023, was ranked No. 42 in Rolling Stone's top 250 Greatest Guitarists of all time. Critic Steve Huey writes, \"[Reid's] rampant eclecticism encompasses everything from heavy metal and punk to funk, R&B and avant-garde jazz, and his anarchic, lightning-fast solos have become something of a hallmark as well.\""
tagline: "American fusion and crossover guitarist (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lozlivingcolour-2016-05-31-04h35m58s185.png?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: "1958-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.73
  momentum:             2.191525260426823
  historical:           18.18335333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/vurnt22"
    handle:    "vurnt22"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/VernonReid"
    handle:    "VernonReid"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717462/"
    handle:    "nm0717462"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.vernon-reid.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ڤيرنون ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ورنون رئید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "버넌 리드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рид, Вернон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1249964"
    title: "Vernon Reid"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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