# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rose-laurens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:59.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rose-laurens"
name: "Rose Laurens"
slug: "rose-laurens"
description: "Rose Laurens, previously billed as Rose Merryl, was a French-Polish singer-songwriter, known for her 1982 single \"Africa\", a top-three hit in several European countries. She was also famous for portraying the character of Fantine, on the original 1980 French concept album of Les Misérables, singing \"L'air de la misère\" and \"J'avais rêvé d'une autre vie\" two songs later adapted into English as \"On My Own\" and \"I Dreamed a Dream\" respectively."
tagline: "French singer-songwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xYC0D1dYYD8RxzQYlBOwScQyPsa.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-03-04"
deathDate: "2018-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           65.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.102004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 12300
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RoseLaurensOff"
    handle:    "RoseLaurensOff"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/roselaurensoff"
    handle:    "roselaurensoff"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4670271/"
    handle:    "nm4670271"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5yHrAQeiQbwIqGHInzdYWM"
    handle:    "5yHrAQeiQbwIqGHInzdYWM"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOYRLskEfXS7m0X5jI9Ox2g"
    handle:    "@roselaurensoff"
    followers: 12300
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "روز لورينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B7_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Роз Лоранс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Laurens"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cef825a8-c831-4f25-adec-7229a3fcd28f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2798021"
    title: "Rose Laurens"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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