# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernestine-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:17:16.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernestine-anderson"
name: "Ernestine Anderson"
slug: "ernestine-anderson"
description: "Ernestine Anderson was an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, as well as at jazz festivals all over the world. In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records, the label founded by fellow Garfield High School graduate Quincy Jones.\nShe was a twin sister to Joesephine Anderson."
tagline: "American jazz and blues singer (1928–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernestine_Anderson_photo.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: "1928-11-11"
deathDate: "2016-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             1.90671031096563
  historical:           17.31904666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7yNele4jnVhZJ2GE7Kg25T"
    handle:    "7yNele4jnVhZJ2GE7Kg25T"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ernestine Anderson"
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    title: "Ernestine Anderson"
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    title: "Ernestine Anderson"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Anderson"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Anderson"
    title: "Ernestine Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ernestine Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Anderson"
    title: "Ernestine Anderson"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Anderson"
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    title: "Ернестін Андерсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274078"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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