# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virgil-fox
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:47:23.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virgil-fox"
name: "Virgil Fox"
slug: "virgil-fox"
description: "Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant \"Heavy Organ\" concerts of the music of Bach in the 1970s, staged complete with light shows. Many of his recordings on the RCA Victor and Capitol labels, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, have been remastered and re-released on compact disc."
tagline: "American musician (1912–1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Fox_virgil.jpg"
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: "1912-05-03"
deathDate: "1980-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.96872133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2624902/"
    handle:    "nm2624902"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3akjbB0gWBVeUSoEzYNJ2O"
    handle:    "Virgil Fox"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "فيرجيل فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "فيرجيل فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヴァージル・フォックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Фокс, Вирджил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0005682c-3083-415e-ae4c-debd7be3e47e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2496948"
    title: "Virgil Fox"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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