# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/panama-francis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:50:58.730Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/panama-francis"
name: "Panama Francis"
slug: "panama-francis"
description: "David Albert \"Panama\" Francis was an American swing jazz drummer who played on numerous hit recordings in the 1950s."
tagline: "American musician (1918–2001)"
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: "1918-12-21"
deathDate: "2001-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.21422
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/832988"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Francis"
    title: "Panama Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Francis"
    title: "Panama Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Francis"
    title: "Panama Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "פנמה פרנסיס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Francis"
    title: "Panama Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Francis"
    title: "Panama Francis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6237bf7f-1ae9-4066-b52f-3c484813bccc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2048920"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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