# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawn-hampton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:37:54.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawn-hampton"
name: "Dawn Hampton"
slug: "dawn-hampton"
description: "Dawn Hampton was an American cabaret and jazz singer, saxophonist, dancer, and songwriter. Hampton began her lifelong career as a musical entertainer touring the Midwest as a three-year-old member of the Hampton family's band The Hampton Sisters in the late 1930s. During World War II and into early 1950s, she performed as part of a quartet with her three sisters and in a jazz band with all nine of her surviving siblings. Hampton moved to New York City in 1958 to pursue a solo career as a cabaret singer. She became a singer/songwriter and dancer, which included off-Broadway theatre performances and swing dancing in Hollywood films. Along with other members of the musical Hamptons, she was a recipient of the State of Indiana's Governor Arts Award (1991) and honored at the Indy Jazz Fest (2000) in Indianapolis, Indiana."
tagline: "American musician and songwriter (1928–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dawn_Hampton_04.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1928-06-09"
deathDate: "2016-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.138193333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/85c8f229-2d1c-471b-a379-89f345559f77"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "داون هامبتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Hampton"
    title: "Dawn Hampton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Hampton"
    title: "Dawn Hampton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Hampton"
    title: "Dawn Hampton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dawn_Hampton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dawn_Hampton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1178789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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