# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doreen-shaffer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:31:21.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doreen-shaffer"
name: "Doreen Shaffer"
slug: "doreen-shaffer"
description: "Monica Johnson, better known by her stage name Doreen Shaffer, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae singer. Known as the \"Queen of Ska\", she was a founding member in 1964 of the Skatalites. Following the death of Skatalites member Lester Sterling on 16 May 2023, Shaffer is now the last surviving founding member of the Skatalites."
tagline: "Jamaican singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doreen_Shaffer_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.89
  momentum:             3.414634146341463
  historical:           7.287438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/259459"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "دورين شافر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Shaffer"
    title: "Doreen Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Shaffer"
    title: "Doreen Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Shaffer"
    title: "Doreen Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Shaffer"
    title: "Doreen Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Shaffer"
    title: "Doreen Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Shaffer"
    title: "Doreen Shaffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2a9eb313-1d97-487a-a391-afe5b5a50d90"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q544916"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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