# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/i-roy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:21:38.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/i-roy"
name: "I-Roy"
slug: "i-roy"
description: "Roy Samuel Reid, better known as I-Roy, was a Jamaican deejay who had a very prolific career during the 1970s."
tagline: "Jamaican deejay (1944–1999)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/I-Roy.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1944-06-28"
deathDate: "1999-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.687438666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/33471"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "اى روى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Roy"
    title: "I-Roy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Roy"
    title: "I-Roy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Roy"
    title: "I Roy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "איי רוי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Roy"
    title: "I Roy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Roy"
    title: "I-Roy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9fa51e3e-4f52-4d98-87d2-872e7584fb8c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1356456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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