# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lord-burgess
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:13:45.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lord-burgess"
name: "Lord Burgess"
slug: "lord-burgess"
description: "Irving Louis Burgie, sometimes known professionally as Lord Burgess, was an American musician and songwriter, regarded as one of the greatest composers of Caribbean music. He composed 34 songs for Harry Belafonte, including eight of the 11 songs on the Belafonte album Calypso (1956), the first album of any kind to sell one million copies. Burgie also wrote the lyrics of the National Anthem of Barbados. To date, songs penned by Irving Burgie have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide."
tagline: "American musician and songwriter (1924–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irving_Burgie.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: "1924-07-28"
deathDate: "2019-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             3.913043478260867
  historical:           7.950073333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121406/"
    handle:    "nm0121406"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/685340"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "لورد بورجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "لورد بورجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Burgess"
    title: "Lord Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Burgie"
    title: "Irving Burgie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Burgie"
    title: "Irving Burgie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Burgess"
    title: "Lord Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Burgie"
    title: "Irving Burgie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/456987c7-2eb1-4bde-8c3f-6bd8e0b2dc27"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1869869"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3429622"
    title: "Irving Burgie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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