# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heavy-d
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:19:06.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heavy-d"
name: "Heavy D"
slug: "heavy-d"
description: "Dwight Arrington Myers, known professionally as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-American rapper, record producer, and actor. He was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz and \"Trouble\" T. Roy, as well as DJ and producer Eddie F. The group maintained a sizeable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released included production mainly by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Myers's cousin Pete Rock, and \"in-house\" beatmaker Eddie F. Myers also released four solo albums and discovered Soul for Real and Monifah."
tagline: "Jamaican-American rapper and actor (1967–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Heavy_D_in_1991.jpg"
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: "1967-05-24"
deathDate: "2011-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.18
  momentum:             0.805735965532763
  historical:           23.34322133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/heavyd"
    handle:    "heavyd"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/officialheavyd"
    handle:    "officialheavyd"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372809/"
    handle:    "nm0372809"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Heavy D"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Heavy D"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Heavy D"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヘヴィ・D"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Heavy D"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Heavy D"
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    title: "Heavy D"
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    title: "Heavy D"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ہیوی ڈی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450714"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18795"
    title: "Heavy D"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump