# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-bay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:07:05.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-bay"
name: "Francis Bay"
slug: "francis-bay"
description: "Francis Bay was a Belgian conductor. Born as Frans Bayezt, he conducted many Belgian entries in the Eurovision Song Contest and had his own Big band orchestra titled \"Francis Bay and His Big Band."
tagline: "Belgian composer (1914–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Bay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1914-12-27"
deathDate: "2005-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.14
  momentum:             7.659574468085106
  historical:           9.209144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062845/"
    handle:    "nm0062845"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NqvCUeQ1i0AWhGTFTdafU"
    handle:    "5NqvCUeQ1i0AWhGTFTdafU"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "فرنسيس باي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "فرنسيس باى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bay"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bay"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bay"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bay"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bay"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bay"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/73680da8-beda-4eb0-a63d-bec7866c45a9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1738930"
    title: "Francis Bay"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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