# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/free-marie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:15:52.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/free-marie"
name: "Free Marie"
slug: "free-marie"
description: "Marie Antoinette Wright, better known by her stage name Free, is an American media personality, television producer, choreographer, rapper, and philanthropist. She became known as the first host of Black Entertainment Television's 106 & Park until 2005. She was later as a disc jockey at KKBT 100.3 The Beat in L.A., serving as a morning drive co-host at WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C., and is the former co-host of The Ed Lover Morning Show on Power 105.1 in New York."
tagline: "American media personality, producer, choreographer and rapper"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FreeApr05.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: "1968-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.9
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.037152
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260586/"
    handle:    "nm1260586"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.freesworld.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/223808"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "فري ماري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "فرى مارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_(television_host)"
    title: "Free (television host)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_(rapper)"
    title: "Free (rapper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_(raperka)"
    title: "Free (raperka)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_(m%C3%BCzisyen)"
    title: "Free (müzisyen)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/111fbeab-6f67-4d9c-b682-acfd0840c68f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5499725"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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