# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/red-hurley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:50:51.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/red-hurley"
name: "Red Hurley"
slug: "red-hurley"
description: "Brian \"Red\" Hurley is an Irish singer. Hurley's career includes singing lead for bands such as The Colours, The Wheels, and The Nevada. He had a series of number one records in the 1970s while performing with The Nevada. Hurley also represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with the song \"When\"."
tagline: "Irish singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1976_-_Ireland_-_Red_Hurley_3.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.886070666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1489231/"
    handle:    "nm1489231"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.redhurley.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1440354"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hurley"
    title: "Red Hurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hurley"
    title: "Red Hurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "رد هارلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EB%93%9C_%ED%97%90%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "레드 헐리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hurley"
    title: "Red Hurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hurley"
    title: "Red Hurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hurley"
    title: "Red Hurley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/28fc6c92-3e69-4a7e-92a4-134694ff45f5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2136003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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