# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-somerville
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:04:41.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-somerville"
name: "Jimmy Somerville"
slug: "jimmy-somerville"
description: "James William Somerville is a Scottish singer. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as a member the synth-pop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards; with the former, Somerville achieved commercial success worldwide with the 1984 single \"Smalltown Boy\", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart."
tagline: "Scottish pop singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Somerville_2015.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: "1961-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.25678279115211
  historical:           25.516076
  currentAttention:     50.28282828282828
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  186
  category: null
totalFollowers: 124000
platforms:
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    handle:    "JimmySomerville"
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    handle:    "officialjimmysomerville"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@jimmysomervilleofficial"
    followers: 124000
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Somerville"
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    title: "Jimmy Somerville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Somerville"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump