# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-binta-breeze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:01:57.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-binta-breeze"
name: "Jean \"Binta\" Breeze"
slug: "jean-binta-breeze"
description: "Jean \"Binta\" Breeze MBE was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia, and Africa, and has been called \"one of the most important, influential performance poets of recent years\"."
tagline: "Jamaican musician (1956-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JeanBintaBreeze.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-03-11"
deathDate: "2021-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.476422666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Binta_Breeze"
    title: "Jean Binta Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_%22Binta%22_Breeze"
    title: "Jean \"Binta\" Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_%22Binta%22_Breeze"
    title: "Jean \"Binta\" Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Binta_Breeze"
    title: "Jean Binta Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_%C2%AB_Binta_%C2%BB_Breeze"
    title: "Jean « Binta » Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Binta_Breeze"
    title: "Jean Binta Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_%22Binta%22_Breeze"
    title: "Jean \"Binta\" Breeze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/57ce69b5-7fa6-41be-927b-4863e317fa3a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3170263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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