# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/king-tubby
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:40:02.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/king-tubby"
name: "King Tubby"
slug: "king-tubby"
description: "Osbourne Ruddock, better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who influenced the development of dub music in the 1960s and 1970s."
tagline: "Jamaican electronics and sound engineer (1941–1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/King_Tubby.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-01-28"
deathDate: "1989-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.71038133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1AMMMSq3rJdZtFGnBXEkz7"
    handle:    "1AMMMSq3rJdZtFGnBXEkz7"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "كينج توبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC"
    title: "キング・タビー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds_nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Кинг Табби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby"
    title: "King Tubby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/576134a6-9f1f-4bfa-af04-4848195849ca"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451858"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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