# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:47:05.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-banks"
name: "Jacob Banks"
slug: "jacob-banks"
description: "Jacob Banks is a Nigerian-born English singer and songwriter from Birmingham. Banks won the 2012 MOBO UnSung regional competition in Birmingham and the Adidas \"Are You In\" music competition. His music is influenced by a range of genres including soul, R&B and hip hop. Banks is currently signed with American label Interscope Records."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Banks_Piknik_i_Parken_2018_(194941)-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1991-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.43
  momentum:             1.526717557251908
  historical:           7.726318666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 557000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MrJacobBanks"
    handle:    "MrJacobBanks"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mrjacobbanks/"
    handle:    "mrjacobbanks"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JacobBanksOfficial"
    handle:    "JacobBanksOfficial"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AepkoQhYvkjEzzwIcGxdV"
    handle:    "Jacob Banks"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mrjacobbanks.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4g_Q12d08IgWaaOzfOQNpg"
    handle:    "@mrjacobbanks"
    followers: 557000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3457509"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "جاكوب بانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "جاكوب بانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Banks"
    title: "Jacob Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Banks"
    title: "Jacob Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B5%D6%84%D5%B8%D5%A2_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%B6%D6%84%D5%BD_(%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%AB%D5%B9)"
    title: "Ջեյքոբ Բենքս (երգիչ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Banks"
    title: "Jacob Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Якоб Бенкс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ca4d7350-e835-4af6-9cbd-1e012e597de4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16995276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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