# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alton-ellis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:19.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alton-ellis"
name: "Alton Ellis"
slug: "alton-ellis"
description: "Alton Nehemiah Ellis was a Jamaican singer-songwriter. One of the innovators of rocksteady, he was given the informal title \"Godfather of Rocksteady\". In 2006, he was inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame."
tagline: "Jamaican musician (1938–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alton_Ellis.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-09-01"
deathDate: "2008-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.73
  momentum:             15.72921108742004
  historical:           16.290576
  currentAttention:     10.92
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1392521/"
    handle:    "nm1392521"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "التون الیس"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Ellis"
    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Ellis"
    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Ellis"
    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Ellis"
    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alton Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump