# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kay-swift
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:48.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kay-swift"
name: "Kay Swift"
slug: "kay-swift"
description: "Katharine Faulkner \"Kay\" Swift was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit musical completely. Written in 1930, the Broadway musical Fine and Dandy includes some of her best known songs; the song \"Fine and Dandy\" has become a jazz standard. \"Can't We Be Friends?\" (1929) was her biggest hit song."
tagline: "American composer of popular and classical music (1897–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Mr._and_Mrs._James_P._Warburg_Vanity_Fair_November_1930.jpg/330px-Mr._and_Mrs._James_P._Warburg_Vanity_Fair_November_1930.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1897-04-19"
deathDate: "1993-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.275816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842608/"
    handle:    "nm0842608"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kayswift.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كاي سويفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاى سويفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "کای سویفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%98"
    title: "קיי סוויפט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%82%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Свифт, Кей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/af7c5bcb-a1bf-4c38-a55a-ac00fda4d9f0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469546"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1488802"
    title: "Kay Swift"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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