# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dinah-washington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:35:49.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dinah-washington"
name: "Dinah Washington"
slug: "dinah-washington"
description: "Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular Black female recording artists of the 1950s. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of \"Queen of the Blues\". She was also known as \"Queen of the Jukeboxes\". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993."
tagline: "American singer, songwriter, pianist (1924-1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dinah_Washington_1952.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: "1924-08-29"
deathDate: "1963-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.65
  momentum:             0.1457784976715934
  historical:           24.341188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0913423"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump