# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/glenn-yarbrough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:55:11.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/glenn-yarbrough"
name: "Glenn Yarbrough"
slug: "glenn-yarbrough"
description: "Glenn Robertson Yarbrough was an American folk singer and guitarist. He was the tenor lead singer of the Limeliters from 1959 to 1963 and also had a prolific solo career. Yarbrough had a restless dissatisfaction with the music industry that led him to question his priorities, and he later focused on sailing and setting up a school for orphans."
tagline: "American folk singer (1930–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Glenn_Yarbrough.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1930-01-12"
deathDate: "2016-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.32
  momentum:             8.860433340360862
  historical:           10.84568933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946386/"
    handle:    "nm0946386"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GxVmha4ELBwUE4bPyChzS"
    handle:    "4GxVmha4ELBwUE4bPyChzS"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.glennyarbrough.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "غلين ياربروف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "جلين ياربروف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glenn_Yarbrough"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9510cfa8-6c08-452a-b701-0b02b9d46e0d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1531129"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1577869"
    title: "Glenn Yarbrough"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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