# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brenda-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:22.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brenda-lee"
name: "Brenda Lee"
slug: "brenda-lee"
description: "Brenda Mae Tarpley, known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Primarily performing rockabilly, pop, country, and Christmas music, she achieved her first Billboard hit at age 12 in 1957, and was given the nickname \"Little Miss Dynamite\". Some of Lee's most successful songs include \"Sweet Nothin's\", \"I'm Sorry\", \"I Want to Be Wanted\", \"Speak to Me Pretty\", \"All Alone Am I\", and \"Losing You\". Her festive song \"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree\", recorded in 1958, topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, making Lee the oldest artist ever to top the chart and breaking several chart records."
tagline: "American singer and recording artist (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brenda_Lee_1977.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1944-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           75.24
  momentum:             1.993392508856427
  historical:           23.81804933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 245000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/BrendaLeeOfficial"
    handle:    "BrendaLeeOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496909/"
    handle:    "nm0496909"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "4cPHsZM98sKzmV26wlwD2W"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brendalee.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC95aQafuwqkWgZZ2y6_cBng"
    handle:    "@brendaleeyt"
    followers: 245000
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بريندا لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بریندا لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бренда Лий"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
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    title: "برندا لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
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    title: "ברנדה לי"
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    title: "Բրենդա Լի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ブレンダ・リー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%A0%8C%EB%8B%A4_%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "브렌다 리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бренда Ли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Lee"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6ca4886a-8f77-4133-b404-46fb3908e24a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1238838"
    title: "Brenda Lee"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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