# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/perry-bradford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:06:35.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/perry-bradford"
name: "Perry Bradford"
slug: "perry-bradford"
description: "Perry Bradford was an African American composer, songwriter, and vaudeville performer. His most notable songs included \"Crazy Blues,\" \"That Thing Called Love,\" and \"You Can't Keep A Good Man Down.\" He was nicknamed \"Mule\" because of his stubbornness, and he is credited with finally persuading Okeh Records to work with Mamie Smith leading to her historic blues recording in 1920."
tagline: "American musician (1893–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Perrybradford-1200x1458.webp?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: "1893-02-14"
deathDate: "1970-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.543053333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/758890"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "بيري برادفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "بيرى برادفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Bradford"
    title: "Perry Bradford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Bradford"
    title: "Perry Bradford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Bradford"
    title: "Perry Bradford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Bradford"
    title: "Perry Bradford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Bradford"
    title: "Perry Bradford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Bradford"
    title: "Perry Bradford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8c9524a0-edaa-4251-a1aa-bb81d5dad85e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1797745"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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