# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:09.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-brown"
name: "Ruth Brown"
slug: "ruth-brown"
description: "Ruth Alston Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the \"Queen of R&B\". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as \"So Long\", \"Teardrops from My Eyes\" and \"(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean\". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as \"the house that Ruth built\". Brown was a 1993 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Brown_1996.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1928-01-12"
deathDate: "2006-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.77165333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114616/"
    handle:    "nm0114616"
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    handle:    "4EYVgfZJ8wKXWmIvCx3gOY"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ruthbrown.net"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рут Браун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump