# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willis-conover
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:26:14.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willis-conover"
name: "Willis Conover"
slug: "willis-conover"
description: "Willis Clark Conover, Jr. was an American jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for more than forty years. He produced jazz concerts at the White House, the Newport Jazz Festival, and for movies and television. By arranging concerts where people of all races were welcome, he is credited with desegregating Washington, D.C. nightclubs. Conover is credited with keeping interest in jazz alive in the countries of Eastern Europe through his nightly broadcasts during the Cold War."
tagline: "American radio producer (1920–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willis_Conover_1969.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1920-10-18"
deathDate: "1996-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.619548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليس كونفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Conover"
    title: "Willis Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Conover"
    title: "Willis Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Conover"
    title: "Willis Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Conover"
    title: "Willis Conover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Коновер, Уиллис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Вілліс Коновер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%88%A9%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%BA%B7%E8%AF%BA%E5%BC%97"
    title: "威利斯·康诺弗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willis_Conover"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/29693801-e531-4452-ae06-e97e1ed4c221"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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