# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbra-amesbury
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:28.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbra-amesbury"
name: "Barbra Amesbury"
slug: "barbra-amesbury"
description: "Barbra Amesbury is a Canadian philanthropist, singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker, who had several Top 40 hits in Canada in the 1970s. Amesbury was the long-time partner of Canadian philanthropist Joan Chalmers until her death in 2016."
tagline: "Canadian philanthropist, singer-songwriter, composer, and filmmaker"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Bill_Amesbury.jpg"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             0.8157099697885197
  historical:           8.146221333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10519311/"
    handle:    "nm10519311"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "باربرا اميسبورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Amesbury"
    title: "Barbra Amesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Amesbury"
    title: "Barbra Amesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Amesbury"
    title: "Barbra Amesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Amesbury"
    title: "Barbra Amesbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਬਾਰਬਰਾ ਐਮਸਬਰੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "باربرا ایمسبری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "باربرا ایمسبری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4b1afffc-ce59-4166-9cfd-21b0f152d80a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4859737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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