# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddy-will
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:40:56.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddy-will"
name: "Freddy Will"
slug: "freddy-will"
description: "Wilfred Kanu Jr., known by his stage name Freddy Will, is a Sierra Leonean American author, music producer, publisher, recording artist, and philanthropist best known for releasing three consecutive albums with accompanying books. He launched his music career by mixing hip-hop with jazz, calypso, r&b, classical music, and Afrobeat. He writes books on history, philosophy, biography, poetry, personal development, and fiction. He is best known for his singles \"City Boy\" (2008), \"Providence feat. Carvin Winans\" (2009), \"Endurance\" (2010), \"Mandingo Love\" (2012), \"2 Passports\" (2014), \"Livin' N' Toronto feat. Kao Denero\" (2014), \"Girl from Happy Hill\" (2017), \"IV U feat. King Boss LAJ\" (2020) and \"Natural Light\" (2024).."
tagline: "American author, philanthropist, and Hip-Hop recording artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freddy_Will_en_Brandeburgo%2C_Alemania.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-08-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.06
  momentum:             16.33333333333333
  historical:           5.670338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Will"
    title: "Freddy Will"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Will"
    title: "Freddy Will"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Will"
    title: "Freddy Will"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "فریڈی ول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Will"
    title: "Freddy Will"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Фредди Уилл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52151647"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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