# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-jarreau
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:47:25.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-jarreau"
name: "Al Jarreau"
slug: "al-jarreau"
description: "Alwin Lopez Jarreau was an American singer. His 1981 album Breakin' Away spent two years on the Billboard 200 and is considered one of the finest examples of the Los Angeles pop and R&B sound. The album won Jarreau the 1982 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In all, he won ten Grammy Awards and was nominated 19 other times during his career."
tagline: "American singer (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al_Jarreau.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: "1940-03-12"
deathDate: "2017-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           74.81
  momentum:             2.106753186379237
  historical:           24.62103333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 97400
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ALJarreau"
    handle:    "ALJarreau"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/aljarreaumusic/"
    handle:    "aljarreaumusic"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AlJarreauOfficial"
    handle:    "AlJarreauOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418886/"
    handle:    "nm0418886"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YR92OLKlvkK5oKNekSqXe"
    handle:    "3YR92OLKlvkK5oKNekSqXe"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.aljarreau.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTxAeC9CBE-mwM-YTfSqTeA"
    handle:    "@aljarreau"
    followers: 97400
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "أل جارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ال جارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ال جارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cerro"
    title: "El Cerro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB_%D0%96%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Ал Жаро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%B1%DB%86"
    title: "ئال جرۆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%92'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95"
    title: "אל ג'ארו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%AC_%D5%8B%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B8"
    title: "Էլ Ջերո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6"
    title: "アル・ジャロウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A8_%EC%A0%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "앨 저로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3e54ba8b-f4cc-4192-9813-890d570e2b7a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/180615"
    title: "Al Jarreau"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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