# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chas-smash
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:30:09.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chas-smash"
name: "Chas Smash"
slug: "chas-smash"
description: "Cathal Joseph \"Carl\" Smyth, also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the secondary vocalist, trumpet player and dancer for the English band Madness from their inception in the late 1970s until 2014."
tagline: "English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chas_Smash_and_Lee_Thompson_on_stage_2009_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1959-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.48
  momentum:             16.63251007181643
  historical:           9.639076000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810774/"
    handle:    "nm0810774"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/684107"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "تشاس سماش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Smash"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Smash"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Smash"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Smash"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Smash"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Smyth"
    title: "Cathal Smyth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Smash"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/93a66d57-aa4c-4e40-98d4-64f76a34932e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3496468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1097738"
    title: "Chas Smash"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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