# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nitty-gritty
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:46:39.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nitty-gritty"
name: "Nitty Gritty"
slug: "nitty-gritty"
description: "Glen Augustus Holness, otherwise known by his stage name Nitty Gritty, was a popular Jamaican reggae singer. Born in the August Town section of Kingston, Jamaica, he was the second of eleven children born to religious parents."
tagline: "Jamaican musician (1957–1991)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957"
deathDate: "1991-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.818288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5scrFOJmEsbpwUJLjkFFHJ"
    handle:    "5scrFOJmEsbpwUJLjkFFHJ"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/252299"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty"
    title: "Nitty Gritty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty"
    title: "Nitty Gritty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty"
    title: "Nitty Gritty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty"
    title: "Nitty Gritty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty"
    title: "Nitty Gritty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitty_Gritty"
    title: "Nitty Gritty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/172c3636-a390-4e3b-9085-27564efd8b23"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1956227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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