# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-davis-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:33:45.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-davis-jr"
name: "Billy Davis, Jr."
slug: "billy-davis-jr"
description: "Billy Davis Jr. is an American singer and musician, best known as a member of the 5th Dimension. Along with his wife Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during the 1960's and 1970's with \"Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In\", \"I Hope We Get to Love in Time\", \"Your Love\", and \"You Don't Have to Be a Star \". Davis and McCoo were married in 1969. They became the first African-American married couple to host a network television series, titled The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show, on CBS in the summer of 1977, the year \"You Don't Have to Be a Star \" won a Grammy Award."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Davis%2C_Jr.%2C_1977.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1938-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.11
  momentum:             16.20703544575725
  historical:           7.100492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204105/"
    handle:    "nm0204105"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/090k1Fxa70NDQvkXmQBUfW"
    handle:    "090k1Fxa70NDQvkXmQBUfW"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/372487"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "بيلي ديفيس جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%89)"
    title: "بيلى ديفيس (مغنى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davis_Jr."
    title: "Billy Davis Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davis_Jr."
    title: "Billy Davis Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davis%2C_Jr."
    title: "Billy Davis, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a158e3d4-40a5-4471-ad15-e0e072c3fd99"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912436"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222125"
    title: "Billy Davis Jr."
    type:  "DATABASE"

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