# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morgana-king
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:20:20.231Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morgana-king"
name: "Morgana King"
slug: "morgana-king"
description: "Maria Grazia Morgana Messina, better known as Morgana King, was an American jazz singer and actress. She began a professional singing career at sixteen years old. In her twenties, she was singing at a Greenwich Village nightclub when she was recognized for her unique phrasing and vocal range, described as a four-octave contralto range. She was signed to a label and began recording solo albums. She recorded dozens of albums well into the late 1990s."
tagline: "American singer and actress (1930-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morgana_King_1968.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1930-06-04"
deathDate: "2018-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.47
  momentum:             0.4384421025353086
  historical:           15.47529733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455088/"
    handle:    "nm0455088"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مورجانا كينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مرقانا کینق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "مرگانا کینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EA%B0%80%EB%82%98_%ED%82%B9"
    title: "모가나 킹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgana_King"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "مورگانا کنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b601ade5-7980-47d9-bcab-6a099b258a95"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524930"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/933716"
    title: "Morgana King"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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