# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caron-wheeler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:29:31.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caron-wheeler"
name: "Caron Wheeler"
slug: "caron-wheeler"
description: "Caron Melina Wheeler is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born and raised in London, she performed in various singing competitions as a teenager and began her recording career as one of the founding members of Brown Sugar. She was also one of the founding members of the female backing vocalist group Afrodiziak. She officially rose to fame in the late 1980s as the lead singer of R&B group Soul II Soul. Managed by her bandmate, Jazzie B, the group became one of London's best-selling groups in the 1990s. Their debut album, Club Classics Vol. One (1989), which established them as a global success worldwide, earned two Grammy Awards and featured the UK and Billboard number-one singles \"Keep On Movin'\" and \"Back to Life \"."
tagline: "English singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CaronWheeler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1963-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.15
  momentum:             1.137440758293839
  historical:           11.737196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2126309/"
    handle:    "nm2126309"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RhMHmV21ZDcSGZ872U4ZY"
    handle:    "2RhMHmV21ZDcSGZ872U4ZY"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "كارون ويلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "كارون ويلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "کارون ویلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron_Wheeler"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron_Wheeler"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron_Wheeler"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "کارون ویلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron_Wheeler"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron_Wheeler"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "キャロン・ウィーラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron_Wheeler"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e24587e5-c4c8-4a81-a0cd-6850190f4b94"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q458849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3635937"
    title: "Caron Wheeler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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