# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/curtis-mayfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:45.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/curtis-mayfield"
name: "Curtis Mayfield"
slug: "curtis-mayfield"
description: "Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Dubbed the Gentle Genius, he is considered one of the most influential musicians of soul and socially conscious African-American music. Mayfield first achieved success and recognition with the vocal group the Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter (1942–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Curtis_Mayfield.png?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: "1942-06-03"
deathDate: "1999-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8818373592417625
  historical:           24.7185
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 202000
platforms:
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump