# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-bliss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:16.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-bliss"
name: "Philip Bliss"
slug: "philip-bliss"
description: "Philip Paul Bliss was an American composer of gospel songs, baritone-bass singer, and song leader who collaborated with Daniel W. Whittle in evangelistic ministry; he was also a good friend of Dwight L. Moody. Some of his better-known songs are \"Hold the Fort\" (1870), \"Almost Persuaded\" (1871); \"Let the Lower Lights Be Burning\" (1871); \"Hallelujah, What a Saviour!\" (1875); \"Wonderful Words of Life\" (1875), and \"I Will Sing of My Redeemer\" (1876); he also wrote the melody for Horatio Spafford's \"It Is Well with My Soul\" (1876)."
tagline: "19th century Christian hymnodist (1838–1876)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ppblisscdv.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: "1838-07-09"
deathDate: "1876-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.11
  momentum:             3.991130820399113
  historical:           11.078624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيليب بليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فيليب بليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Bliss"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_P._Bliss"
    title: "Philip P. Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Paul_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Paul Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Paul_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Paul Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Paul_Bliss"
    title: "Philip Paul Bliss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec3987b6-4283-4240-b9a9-3ba630dc6421"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q898625"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump