# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/florence-foster-jenkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:45:29.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/florence-foster-jenkins"
name: "Florence Foster Jenkins"
slug: "florence-foster-jenkins"
description: "Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur coloratura soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile, in his book The Book of Heroic Failures ranked her \"the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation.\""
tagline: "American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill and singing ability (1868–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mrs._Florence_Foster_Jenkins_LCCN2014714080.tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1868-07-19"
deathDate: "1944-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.12091356918943
  historical:           24.703328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump