# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-mcnair
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:12:15.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-mcnair"
name: "Barbara McNair"
slug: "barbara-mcnair"
description: "Barbara Jean McNair\n(March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an American singer and theater, television, and film actress. McNair's career spanned over five decades in television, film, and stage. McNair's professional career began in music during the late 1950s, singing in the nightclub circuit. In 1958, McNair released \"Till There Was You\", her debut single for Coral Records, which was a commercial success. McNair performed all around the world, touring with Nat King Cole and later appearing in his Broadway stage shows I'm with You and The Merry World of Nat King Cole in the early 1960s."
tagline: "American singer and theater, television and film actress (1934–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_McNair_1967.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1934-03-04"
deathDate: "2007-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.3
  momentum:             0.1239669421487603
  historical:           15.71632133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573552/"
    handle:    "nm0573552"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "باربارا مک‌نیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
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    title: "باربارا مک‌نیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%94%EB%B0%94%EB%9D%BC_%EB%A7%A5%EB%84%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%B4"
    title: "바바라 맥네이어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McNair"
    title: "Barbara McNair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Barbara McNair"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump