# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-orbison
# Generated: 2026-09-02T02:35:03.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-orbison"
name: "Roy Orbison"
slug: "roy-orbison"
description: "Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s. Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male performers projected strength. He performed with minimal motion and in black clothes, matching his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses."
tagline: "American musician (1936 –1988)"
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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: "1936-04-23"
deathDate: "1988-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             25
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  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  205
  category: 191
totalFollowers: 1010000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump