# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roland-hayes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:23:02.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roland-hayes"
name: "Roland Hayes"
slug: "roland-hayes"
description: "Roland Wiltse Hayes was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German, and Italian. His predecessors as well-known African-American concert artists, including Sissieretta Jones and Marie Selika, were not recorded. Along with Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson, Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier in the classical repertoire when he recorded with Columbia in 1939."
tagline: "African American singer (1887–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roland_Hayes_by_Van_Vechten.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: "1887-06-03"
deathDate: "1977-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0.7092198581560285
  historical:           9.276104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1156549"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "رولاند هايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "رولاند هايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes"
    title: "Roland Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes"
    title: "Roland Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes"
    title: "Roland Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes"
    title: "Roland Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes"
    title: "Roland Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes"
    title: "Roland Hayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88_%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B2"
    title: "رولینڈ ہیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e269a73d-c867-419f-8ace-f5382677b665"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3440096"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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