# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/will-marion-cook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:28.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/will-marion-cook"
name: "Will Marion Cook"
slug: "will-marion-cook"
description: "William Mercer Cook, better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African-American composer, pianist, orchestrator, lyricist, violinist, and choral director. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák. In 1919 he took his New York Syncopated Orchestra to England for a command performance for King George V of the United Kingdom, and tour. Cook is probably best known for his popular songs and landmark Broadway musicals, featuring African-American creators, producers, and casts, such as Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk (1898) and In Dahomey (1903). The latter toured for four years, including in the United Kingdom and United States."
tagline: "African American composer and violinist (1869–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will-Marion-Cook-NYPL-1910.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: "1869-01-27"
deathDate: "1944-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1492421/"
    handle:    "nm1492421"
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    title: "Will Marion Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Will Marion Cook"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump