# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-currie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:44:50.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-currie"
name: "Billy Currie"
slug: "billy-currie"
description: "William Lee Currie is a British multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Huddersfield, England. He is best known as the keyboard and strings player with new wave band Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s."
tagline: "British multi-instrumentalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/090430--billy_currie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.56710666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Billy-Currie-124950034330891"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192941/"
    handle:    "nm0192941"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.billycurrie.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيلي كوري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيلى كورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیلی کوری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Currie"
    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Currie"
    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Currie"
    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Currie"
    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Currie"
    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Currie"
    title: "Billy Currie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Карри, Билли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Currie"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/820408ab-a3b5-429b-94b2-774693a6ae62"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Billy Currie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump