# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prince-buster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:59:09.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prince-buster"
name: "Prince Buster"
slug: "prince-buster"
description: "Cecil Bustamente Campbell, known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that would be drawn upon later by reggae and ska artists."
tagline: "Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (1938-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prince_Buster.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-05-24"
deathDate: "2016-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.03
  momentum:             3.206475820429309
  historical:           22.32089333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/princebusterska"
    handle:    "princebusterska"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124566/"
    handle:    "nm0124566"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/75S63f1AmZUa9gpQvlt5NB"
    handle:    "75S63f1AmZUa9gpQvlt5NB"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
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    title: "برنس باستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Buster"
    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Принц Бастер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Prince Buster"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump