# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-mcferrin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:14:40.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-mcferrin"
name: "Bobby McFerrin"
slug: "bobby-mcferrin"
description: "Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. is an American improvisational vocal musician, singer, songwriter, and conductor. His vocal techniques include singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and improvisational vocal percussion. McFerrin performs and records regularly as an unaccompanied solo vocal artist and has frequently collaborated with other artists from both the jazz and classical scenes."
tagline: "American jazz vocalist and composer (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bobby_McFerrin_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.411728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump