# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/garnett-silk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:03.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/garnett-silk"
name: "Garnett Silk"
slug: "garnett-silk"
description: "Garnet Silk was a Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, known for his diverse, emotive, powerful and smooth voice. During the early 1990s he was hailed as a rising talent, however his career was ended by his early death in 1994, while attempting to save his mother from her burning house."
tagline: "Jamaician musician (1966–1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Garnett_Silk.gif"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-04-02"
deathDate: "1994-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.075528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798017/"
    handle:    "nm0798017"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/194652"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnett_Silk"
    title: "Garnett Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnett_Silk"
    title: "Garnett Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnett_Silk"
    title: "Garnett Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnet_Silk"
    title: "Garnet Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ガーネット・シルク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnett_Silk"
    title: "Garnett Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/34cc8d95-6aff-4ef7-b1f5-faad7f630504"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385039"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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