# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:57:36.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-cole"
name: "Paula Cole"
slug: "paula-cole"
description: "Paula Dorothy Cole is an American singer and songwriter. After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel's 1993–1994 Secret World Tour, she released her first album, Harbinger, which suffered from a lack of promotion when the label, Imago Records, folded shortly after its release. Her second album, This Fire (1996), brought her worldwide acclaim, peaking at number 20 on the Billboard 200 album chart and producing two hit singles, the triple-Grammy nominated \"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?\", which reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and \"I Don't Want to Wait\", which was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson's Creek. Cole was a featured performer in the 1996 prototype mini-tour for Lilith Fair, and also was a headliner for Lilith Fair in 1997 and 1998. She won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1998, and that same year became the first woman to be nominated for \"Producer of the Year\" without a male collaborator."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paula-Cole_2009_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1968-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.64
  momentum:             1.109493302271404
  historical:           23.547812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 15400
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/paulacolemusic"
    handle:    "paulacolemusic"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/paulacolemusic"
    handle:    "paulacolemusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004832/"
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  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWO83Y-NEx5mNySmy9Zj50w"
    handle:    "Paula Cole - Topic"
    followers: 15400
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بولا كول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بولا كول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پائولا کول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пола Коул"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Coleová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
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    title: "پائولا کول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פולה קול"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ポーラ・コール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "폴라 콜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Cole"
    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Cole"
    title: "Paula Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Коул, Пола"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "பௌலா கோல்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "พอลลา โคล"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paula_Cole"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d3ba9251-215f-4ef3-a6de-8aa256b9c30c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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