# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/percy-sledge
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:10.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/percy-sledge"
name: "Percy Sledge"
slug: "percy-sledge"
description: "Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song \"When a Man Loves a Woman\", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc from the RIAA."
tagline: "American singer (1941–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Percy_Sledge_1974_touring.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1941-11-25"
deathDate: "2015-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.65
  momentum:             2.612060625604645
  historical:           23.822388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1429510/"
    handle:    "nm1429510"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rRmDmzPcAFwcUDvG5gBqO"
    handle:    "3rRmDmzPcAFwcUDvG5gBqO"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://psledge.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيرسى سليدج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیرسی سلیدج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Persi Slec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
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    title: "פרסי סלדג'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Փերսի Սլեջ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Sledge"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "パーシー・スレッジ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "퍼시 슬레지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1217546"
    title: "Percy Sledge"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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