# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-c-handy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:01:58.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-c-handy"
name: "W. C. Handy"
slug: "w-c-handy"
description: "William Christopher Handy was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to a new level of popularity."
tagline: "American blues composer and musician (1873–1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/W._C._Handy_(1941_Van_Vechten_portrait).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1873-11-16"
deathDate: "1958-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.66
  momentum:             10
  historical:           24.071488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump