# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cousin-joe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:45:14.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cousin-joe"
name: "Cousin Joe"
slug: "cousin-joe"
description: "Pleasant Joseph, known as Cousin Joe, was a New Orleans blues and jazz singer, famous for his 1940s recordings with Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow."
tagline: "American blues and jazz singer (1907-1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Best_youngest_image_on_web.jpg"
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: "1907-12-20"
deathDate: "1989-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.29
  momentum:             0.1290322580645161
  historical:           8.138985333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1869847/"
    handle:    "nm1869847"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/733554"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86_%DA%86%D9%88"
    title: "كوسين چو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Joe"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Joe"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Joe"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Joe"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Joe"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Joe"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/98e2f2c2-2b24-42f6-8b38-74414dfca3bf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346971"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1388222"
    title: "Cousin Joe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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