# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mamie-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:06:52.749Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mamie-smith"
name: "Mamie Smith"
slug: "mamie-smith"
description: "Mamie Smith was an American singer. As a vaudeville singer, she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings. Willie \"The Lion\" Smith described the background of these recordings in his autobiography Music on My Mind (1964)."
tagline: "American vaudeville singer (1891–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MamieSmith.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1891-05-26"
deathDate: "1946-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.98
  momentum:             1.478439425051335
  historical:           19.16728666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809197/"
    handle:    "nm0809197"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2HS2wQTJXpA65XWOKlAVxk"
    handle:    "2HS2wQTJXpA65XWOKlAVxk"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مامى سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smithov%C3%A1"
    title: "Mamie Smithová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "میمی اسمیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "メイミー・スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Смит, Мэми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82"
    title: "Мами Смит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%82"
    title: "Мамі Сміт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89940"
    title: "Mamie Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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