# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-bovell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:25:38.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-bovell"
name: "Dennis Bovell"
slug: "dennis-bovell"
description: "Dennis Bovell is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a progressive rock group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British reggae band Matumbi, and released dub-reggae records under his own name as well as the pseudonym Blackbeard. He is most widely known for his decades-spanning collaborations with Linton Kwesi Johnson."
tagline: "Barbadian-British reggae musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DennisBovell1978.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.471568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0100599"
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    title: "Dennis Bovell"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Bovell"
    title: "Dennis Bovell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump