# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-vee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:20:16.508Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-vee"
name: "Bobby Vee"
slug: "bobby-vee"
description: "Robert Thomas Velline, known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career."
tagline: "American singer (1943–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bobby_Vee_(1962).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: "1943-04-30"
deathDate: "2016-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.66
  momentum:             0.5572289156626505
  historical:           23.25243733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891694/"
    handle:    "nm0891694"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5MX2l6ewjOaeWn1lYNhzlO"
    handle:    "5MX2l6ewjOaeWn1lYNhzlO"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.bobbyvee.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بوبي في"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%89"
    title: "بوبى فى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "بابی وی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%86%D8%A8%DB%8C_%DA%A4%DB%8C"
    title: "بۆبی ڤی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "بابی وی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "בובי וי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ボビー・ヴィー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B3%B4%EB%B9%84_%EB%B9%84"
    title: "보비 비"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Ви, Бобби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/97ebb1b4-1d9c-4303-bb60-074c993e2d53"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23091"
    title: "Bobby Vee"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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