# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-merrill
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:18:42.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-merrill"
name: "Helen Merrill"
slug: "helen-merrill"
description: "Helen Merrill is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1954 recording Helen Merrill, was an immediate success and associated her with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians. After an active 1950s and 1960s, Merrill spent time recording and touring in Europe and Japan, falling into obscurity in the United States. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was recorded by EmArcy, JVC and Verve, and her performances in America revived her profile."
tagline: "American recording artist; jazz vocalist (born 1930)"
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: "1930-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.7
  momentum:             1.903448275862069
  historical:           16.517432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1861262/"
    handle:    "nm1861262"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4JHlHSUko0ivu6fXYT8J2q"
    handle:    "4JHlHSUko0ivu6fXYT8J2q"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.helenmerrill.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/60063"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "هيلين ميريل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "هيلين ميريل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "هلن مریل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "هلن مریل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ヘレン・メリル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%AC%EB%A0%8C_%EB%A9%94%EB%A6%B4"
    title: "헬렌 메릴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Merrill"
    title: "Helen Merrill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Хелен Меррилл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bce6f3f4-8db1-4fbb-9dbe-8a1224b57dfb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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