# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keith-whitley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:32:49.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keith-whitley"
name: "Keith Whitley"
slug: "keith-whitley"
description: "Jackie Keith Whitley was an American country music and bluegrass singer and songwriter. During his career, he released only two albums, but charted 12 singles on the Billboard country charts, and seven more after his death."
tagline: "American country singer (1954–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KeithWhitley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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: "1954-07-01"
deathDate: "1989-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.92
  momentum:             4.085450346420323
  historical:           13.176076
  currentAttention:     8.16
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2298656/"
    handle:    "nm2298656"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيث وايتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%B1%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%83%A0%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A9"
    title: "凱斯·惠特利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Keith_Whitley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dc3a714b-1886-43f9-87c1-45740a02e4dd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346036"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5855365"
    title: "Keith Whitley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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