# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-higgs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:51.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-higgs"
name: "Joe Higgs"
slug: "joe-higgs"
description: "Joseph Benjamin Higgs was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson. A popular artist in Jamaica for four decades, he tutored younger musicians including Bob Marley and the Wailers and Jimmy Cliff."
tagline: "Jamaican musician (1940–1999)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-06-03"
deathDate: "1999-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.19
  momentum:             0.2491408934707904
  historical:           9.242948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2555904/"
    handle:    "nm2555904"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joehiggs.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/132000"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "چو هيجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgs"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgs"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgs"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgs"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョー・ヒッグス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgs"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgs"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d78d71bb-7260-43ef-b12f-e2f8eb26b153"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2245887"
    title: "Joe Higgs"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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