# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brook-benton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:46.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brook-benton"
name: "Brook Benton"
slug: "brook-benton"
description: "Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music spanned rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as \"It's Just a Matter of Time\" and \"Endlessly\"."
tagline: "American singer (1931–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brook_Benton.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1931-09-19"
deathDate: "1988-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.46207466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072907/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump