# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlie-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:36:06.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlie-thomas"
name: "Charlie Thomas"
slug: "charlie-thomas"
description: "Charles Nowlin Thomas was an American singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Thomas was performing with The Five Crowns at the Apollo Theater in 1958 when George Treadwell fired his group, called The Drifters. Treadwell recruited the Five Crowns to become the new Drifters."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charlie_Thomas_-_Performing_Live_.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: "1937-04-07"
deathDate: "2023-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.19
  momentum:             0.7568306010928962
  historical:           5.968361333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1741235"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "تشارلي طوماس (مغني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلى توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Thomas"
    title: "Charlie Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Thomas_(musician)"
    title: "Charlie Thomas (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Thomas"
    title: "Charlie Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b2d3352c-a8b9-4252-b97d-8ad2e495fe38"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5085601"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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