# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/big-youth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:05.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/big-youth"
name: "Big Youth"
slug: "big-youth"
description: "Manley Augustus Buchanan, better known as Big Youth, is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s."
tagline: "Jamaican deejay"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Big_Youth_skankin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.655332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118047/"
    handle:    "nm0118047"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/58870"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "بيج يوث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manley_Augustus_Buchanan"
    title: "Manley Augustus Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Manley_Augustus_Buchanan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6e4cbcf5-1b18-4719-98c2-7a2c9eccaa6d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78613"
    title: "Big Youth"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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