# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-gillen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:04:31.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-gillen"
name: "Ray Gillen"
slug: "ray-gillen"
description: "Raymond Arthur Gillen was an American rock singer. He is best known for his work with Badlands, in addition to his stint with Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s and recording most of the vocals on Phenomena's Dream Runner album."
tagline: "American singer (1959–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Ray-Gillen.png"
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: "1959-05-12"
deathDate: "1993-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.44833866666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.raygillen.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راى جيلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%AD%CE%B9_%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BD"
    title: "Ρέι Γκίλεν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ری گیلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "レイ・ギラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_%EA%B8%B8%EB%9F%B0"
    title: "레이 길런"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gillen"
    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Гиллен, Рэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Gillen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/43e9db57-4ac3-4979-9234-220ce711628f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump