# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vic-briggs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:11.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vic-briggs"
name: "Vic Briggs"
slug: "vic-briggs"
description: "Victor Harvey Briggs III was a British blues and rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist with Eric Burdon and The Animals from 1966 to 1968. Briggs, a convert to Sikhism, later played classical Indian and Hawaiian music, and adopted the name Antion Vikram Singh Meredith."
tagline: "British musician (1945-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fanclub1967Animals4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-02-14"
deathDate: "2021-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.87
  momentum:             1.27861089187056
  historical:           7.984777333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109094/"
    handle:    "nm0109094"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.antionmusic.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%B2"
    title: "فيك بريغز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B2"
    title: "فيك بريجز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%82%D8%B2"
    title: "فیک بریقز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Briggs"
    title: "Vic Briggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Briggs"
    title: "Vic Briggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Briggs"
    title: "Vic Briggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B3%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Бриггс, Вик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a4ea7ba-d3be-4e5f-b890-4d2d4986af42"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3503791"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1120060"
    title: "Vic Briggs"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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