# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolas-sestito
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:18:43.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicolas-sestito"
name: "Nicolás Sestito"
slug: "nicolas-sestito"
description: "Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, dancer and composer best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group the Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. In 1968, Lymon was found dead at age 25 from a heroin overdose. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers. Lymon's life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love."
tagline: "American singer (1942–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frankie%2BLymon.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: "1942-09-30"
deathDate: "1968-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.12
  momentum:             0.5251031253483964
  historical:           17.88625866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528175/"
    handle:    "nm0528175"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانكى ليمون"
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    title: "Frankie Lymon"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon"
    title: "Frankie Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon"
    title: "Frankie Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon"
    title: "Frankie Lymon"
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    title: "Фрэнки Лаймон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Lymon"
    title: "Franciscus Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon"
    title: "Frankie Lymon"
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    title: "Frankie Lymon"
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    title: "Frankie Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frankie Lymon"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon"
    title: "Frankie Lymon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump