# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mick-hucknall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:32:30.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mick-hucknall"
name: "Mick Hucknall"
slug: "mick-hucknall"
description: "Michael James Hucknall is an English singer and songwriter. Hucknall achieved international fame in the 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter of the soul-influenced pop band Simply Red, with whom he had a 25-year career and sold over 50 million albums. Hucknall was described by the Australian Rhythms Magazine as \"one of the truly great blue-eyed soul singers\", while Q credited him with \"the most prodigious voice this side of Motown\"."
tagline: "English singer, songwriter and lead singer of Simply Red"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mick_Hucknall_by_Slawek.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.15
  momentum:             2.784232125310676
  historical:           17.92207733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399619/"
    handle:    "nm0399619"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mickhucknall.com/"
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    title: "Mick Hucknall"
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    title: "Mick Hucknall"
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    title: "Mick Hucknall"
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    title: "Мик Хакнал"
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    title: "Mick Hucknall"
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    title: "Mick Hucknall"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump