# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oscar-brand
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:46:31.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oscar-brand"
name: "Oscar Brand"
slug: "oscar-brand"
description: "Oscar Brand was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter, radio and TV host, and author. In his career, spanning 70 years, he composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music ran the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spanned a number of genres. Brand also wrote a number of short stories."
tagline: "Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter and author (1920-2016)"
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: "1920-02-07"
deathDate: "2016-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.59
  momentum:             3.977900552486187
  historical:           7.497554666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104508/"
    handle:    "nm0104508"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4moVbJTrAlRWytpFB8GjTz"
    handle:    "4moVbJTrAlRWytpFB8GjTz"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/292540"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "أوسكار براند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "اوسكار براند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brand"
    title: "Oscar Brand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brand"
    title: "Oscar Brand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brand"
    title: "Oscar Brand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brand"
    title: "Oscar Brand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c7418473-b85b-42a9-9512-1cddfb6eb3d8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5584702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1738468"
    title: "Oscar Brand"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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