# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-gimbel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:57:43.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-gimbel"
name: "Norman Gimbel"
slug: "norman-gimbel"
description: "Norman Gimbel was an American lyricist and songwriter of popular songs and themes to television shows and films. He wrote the lyrics for songs including \"Ready to Take a Chance Again\" and \"Canadian Sunset\". He also co-wrote \"Killing Me Softly with His Song\". He wrote English-language lyrics for many international hits, including \"Sway\", \"Summer Samba\", \"The Girl from Ipanema\", \"How Insensitive\", \"Drinking-Water\", \"Meditation\", \"I Will Wait for You\" and \"Watch What Happens\". Of the movie themes he co-wrote, five were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards or both, including \"It Goes Like It Goes\", from the film Norma Rae, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 1979. Gimbel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984."
tagline: "American lyricist of popular songs, television, and movie themes (1927-2018)"
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: "1927-11-16"
deathDate: "2018-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.699432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319757/"
    handle:    "nm0319757"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Norman Gimbel"
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    title: "Norman Gimbel"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
    title: "Norman Gimbel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%84"
    title: "نورمن گیمبل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
    title: "Norman Gimbel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
    title: "Norman Gimbel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
    title: "Norman Gimbel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
    title: "Norman Gimbel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Гимбел, Норман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gimbel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump