# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rockin-sidney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:36:21.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rockin-sidney"
name: "Rockin' Sidney"
slug: "rockin-sidney"
description: "Sidney Simien, known professionally as Rockin' Sidney, was an American R&B, zydeco, and soul musician who began recording in the late 1950s and continued performing until his death. He is best known for his 1985 single \"My Toot-Toot\", which reached top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and earned him a Grammy Award."
tagline: "Musician (1938-1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Rockin_sidney.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: "1938-04-09"
deathDate: "1998-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.01
  momentum:             4.32
  historical:           7.020232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/557172"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86'_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "روكين' سيدنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin%E2%80%99_Sidney"
    title: "Rockin’ Sidney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin'_Sidney"
    title: "Rockin' Sidney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin'_Sidney"
    title: "Rockin' Sidney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin'_Sidney"
    title: "Rockin' Sidney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Рокин Сидни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27dc140d-0d31-456a-ab43-0039f9aed358"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7355333"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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