# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-bell-q5105876
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:45:13.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-bell-q5105876"
name: "Chris Bell"
slug: "chris-bell-q5105876"
description: "Christopher Branford Bell was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star through its first album #1 Record (1972). He also pursued a solo career throughout the mid-1970s, resulting in the posthumous I Am the Cosmos LP."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Bell_2014-03-11_22-06.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: "1951-01-12"
deathDate: "1978-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.71
  momentum:             0.450805622214604
  historical:           12.019492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068105/"
    handle:    "nm0068105"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5UDDnXpPNuL91XxNJLX47f"
    handle:    "5UDDnXpPNuL91XxNJLX47f"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/270576"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "كريس بيل (مغني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "كريس بيل (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell_(hudebn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Chris Bell (hudebník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell_(Musiker)"
    title: "Chris Bell (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell_(American_musician)"
    title: "Chris Bell (American musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Chris Bell (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell_(cantante)"
    title: "Chris Bell (cantante)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell"
    title: "Chris Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell"
    title: "Chris Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Белл, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bell"
    title: "Chris Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/db6ac2f7-5bbb-4ed4-88f4-540d5b29542a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5105876"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1443617"
    title: "Chris Bell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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