# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emile-ford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:33:34.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emile-ford"
name: "Emile Ford"
slug: "emile-ford"
description: "Michael Emile Telford Miller, known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with \"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?\", which was the Christmas number one that year. He was also a pioneering sound engineer."
tagline: "Saint Lucian musician and singer (1937-2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/EmileFordPublicity.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-10-16"
deathDate: "2016-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.67
  momentum:             20.71455666192508
  historical:           7.713898666666666
  currentAttention:     6.24
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2091656/"
    handle:    "nm2091656"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/402157"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "إيميل فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ايميل فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ford"
    title: "Emile Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ford"
    title: "Emile Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "エミル・フォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ford"
    title: "Emile Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ford"
    title: "Emile Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8279e65a-bcdb-4796-82dd-ddfe577ccc04"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497522"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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