# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blanche-calloway
# Generated: 2026-09-02T08:28:11.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blanche-calloway"
name: "Blanche Calloway"
slug: "blanche-calloway"
description: "Blanche Dorothea Jones Calloway was an American jazz singer, composer, and bandleader. She was the older sister of Cab Calloway and was a successful singer before her brother. With a music career that spanned over fifty years, Calloway was the first woman to lead an all-male orchestra and performed alongside musicians such as Cozy Cole, Chick Webb, and her brother. Her performing style was described as flamboyant and a major influence on her brother's performance style."
tagline: "American singer, bandleader and composer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Blanchecalloway.jpg"
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: "1902-02-09"
deathDate: "1978-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             0.6451612903225806
  historical:           10.96364533333333
  currentAttention:     3.584229390681003
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/888440"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "بلانش كالوواي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "بلانش كالوواى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "بلانش کالووی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Calloway"
    title: "Blanche Calloway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7fd175fa-3715-4219-9ec1-a944d8fede8b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q268079"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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