# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-martell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:03:56.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-martell"
name: "Linda Martell"
slug: "linda-martell"
description: "Linda Martell is an American singer. She became the first commercially successful Black female artist in the country music field and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry. As one of the first African-American country performers, Martell helped influence the careers of future Nashville artists of color."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Linda_Martell--Record_World.jpg/330px-Linda_Martell--Record_World.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: "1941-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.57
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.872622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4297661/"
    handle:    "nm4297661"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/406242"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Martell"
    title: "Linda Martell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/86e8d0f5-68e8-4875-979a-c46205be3f66"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6551798"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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