# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ottilie-patterson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:48:47.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ottilie-patterson"
name: "Ottilie Patterson"
slug: "ottilie-patterson"
description: "Anna Ottilie Patterson was a Northern Irish blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She has been called the godmother of British blues and the greatest of all British blues singers, often surprising audiences with her large soulful voice and instinctive feeling for the genre."
tagline: "Irish singer (1932–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ChrisBarber.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-01-31"
deathDate: "2011-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.8
  momentum:             5.418868018348395
  historical:           7.031068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1551182/"
    handle:    "nm1551182"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/682447"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson"
    title: "Ottilie Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson"
    title: "Ottilie Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson"
    title: "Ottilie Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson"
    title: "Ottilie Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson"
    title: "Ottilie Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson"
    title: "Ottilie Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e73ea182-6756-438d-be5c-7e6b8424b1b3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2037801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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