# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-nilsson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T15:04:07.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-nilsson"
name: "Harry Nilsson"
slug: "harry-nilsson"
description: "A voice that could carry three octaves and a career that never touched a stage — Nilsson sold millions by staying in the studio, layering vocals into architecture and turning covers into canonical versions people assume are originals."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter (1941–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_Nilsson_(1974).png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-06-15"
deathDate: "1994-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.10862132031362
  historical:           26.088232
  currentAttention:     26.66666666666667
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4350
tags:
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  - name: "Singer / Musician"
    slug: "singer-musician"
  - name: "Singer-Songwriter"
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  - name: "Movies"
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  - name: "Screenwriting"
    slug: "screenwriting"
  - name: "United States"
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    handle:    "harrynilsson"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9UxX6QQmu0BCUKlG58Bkqw"
    handle:    "@harrynilssonvevo"
    followers: 4350
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Հարրի Նիլսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Nilsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nilsson"
    title: "Harry Nilsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ハリー・ニルソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Harry Nilsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry Nilsson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Brooklyn in 1941, he fled west as a teenager and wrote songs while programming computers at a bank until RCA signed him in 1967. Between 1968 and 1974 he landed nine top 40 singles, including "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Without You", and moved two gold albums without ever touring — a trick almost no one else pulled off. The early seventies brought John Lennon into his circle, along with Ringo Starr and the Hollywood Vampires drinking club, and his voice started to fray after the standards album that came a decade too early. He called himself retired after the Popeye soundtrack, then turned to gun control activism following Lennon's murder in 1980. Heart failure took him in 1994, mid-session on an album he never finished.