# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linton-kwesi-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:14.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linton-kwesi-johnson"
name: "Linton Kwesi Johnson"
slug: "linton-kwesi-johnson"
description: "Linton Kwesi Johnson , also known as LKJ, is a Jamaican-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell."
tagline: "Jamaican dub poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linton_Kwesi_Johnson_(1756331326).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.08604407135362015
  historical:           18.373016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.lkjrecords.com/"
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    title: "لينتون كويسى جونسون"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump