# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-mccain
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:57:49.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-mccain"
name: "Edwin McCain"
slug: "edwin-mccain"
description: "Edwin Cole McCain is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for how 1998 single \"I'll Be\", which peaked at number 5 in the Billboard Hot 100; its 1999 follow-up, \"I Could Not Ask for More\", peaked within its top 40. 5 of McCain's 11 albums have entered the Billboard 200."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/US_Navy_081102-A-8772R-263_Edwin_McCain_and_his_band_entertain_residents_of_Naval_Station_Guantanamo_Bay.jpg?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: "1970-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.69
  momentum:             3.239853271802154
  historical:           10.26947066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1272512/"
    handle:    "nm1272512"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0L6Gwm0JDrgIQJfjarWSUR"
    handle:    "0L6Gwm0JDrgIQJfjarWSUR"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.edwin.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "إدوين ماكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ادوين ماكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ادوین ماکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McCain"
    title: "Edwin McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McCain"
    title: "Edwin McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McCain"
    title: "Edwin McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McCain"
    title: "Edwin McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%93%9C%EC%9C%88_%EB%A7%A4%EC%BC%80%EC%9D%B8"
    title: "에드윈 매케인"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McCain"
    title: "Edwin McCain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f362fdd1-3ddd-4c4e-9629-ef170b08d093"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1294820"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221688"
    title: "Edwin McCain"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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