# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-spence
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:39:05.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-spence"
name: "Joseph Spence"
slug: "joseph-spence"
description: "Joseph Spence was a Bahamian guitarist and singer. He is well known for his vocalizations and humming while playing the guitar. Several American musicians, including Taj Mahal, the Grateful Dead, Ry Cooder, Catfish Keith, Woody Mann, and Olu Dara, as well as the British guitarist John Renbourn, were influenced by and have recorded variations of his arrangements of gospel and Bahamian songs."
tagline: "Bahamian musician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1910-08-03"
deathDate: "1984-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.813068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/412678"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزيف سبينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "چوزيف سبينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence_(musician)"
    title: "Joseph Spence (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence"
    title: "Joseph Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence_(chanteur)"
    title: "Joseph Spence (chanteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spence"
    title: "Joseph Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c18b1dcf-02d4-4d7e-a6c6-dc66873958f1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6287116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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