# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-grant-still
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:31.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-grant-still"
name: "William Grant Still"
slug: "william-grant-still"
description: "William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, art songs, chamber music, and solo works. Born in Mississippi and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Still attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of George Whitefield Chadwick and then as a student of Edgard Varèse. Because of his close association and collaboration with prominent African-American literary and cultural figures, Still is considered to be part of the Harlem Renaissance."
tagline: "American composer (1895–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Grant_Still_by_Carl_Van_Vechten.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: "1895-05-11"
deathDate: "1978-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             17.21570926143024
  historical:           15.29706133333333
  currentAttention:     5.24
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830238/"
    handle:    "nm0830238"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0KkJoXozXmbRdmpy7zCmYA"
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    title: "William Grant Still"
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    title: "William Grant Still"
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    title: "William Grant Still"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump