# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-harper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:40.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-harper"
name: "Roy Harper"
slug: "roy-harper"
description: "Roy Harper is an English folk rock singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist. He has released 22 studio albums across a career that stretches back to 1966. As a musician, Harper is known for his distinctive fingerstyle playing and lengthy, lyrical, complex compositions, reflecting his love of jazz and the poet John Keats."
tagline: "British singer-songwriter (b. 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_Harper.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.65
  momentum:             1.162868632707775
  historical:           22.81299733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/harperroy"
    handle:    "harperroy"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363952/"
    handle:    "nm0363952"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.royharper.co.uk/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "روي هاربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "روى هاربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%B1"
    title: "روی هارپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper_(singer)"
    title: "Roy Harper (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%B1"
    title: "روی هارپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "רוי הרפר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ロイ・ハーパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%98_%E1%83%B0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98"
    title: "როი ჰარპერი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EC%9D%B4_%ED%95%98%ED%8D%BC"
    title: "로이 하퍼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9"
    title: "Харпер, Рой"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roy_Harper_(singer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8fc0c1d2-9be0-464f-98ee-ae7ae5b0086b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365670"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/403142"
    title: "Roy Harper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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