# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scientist
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:54:56.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scientist"
name: "Scientist"
slug: "scientist"
description: "Hopeton Overton Brown is a Jamaican recording engineer and producer who rose to fame in the 1980s mixing dub music as \"Scientist\". A protégé of King Tubby, Scientist's contemporaries include several figures who, working at King Tubby's studio, had helped pioneer the genre in the 1970s: Ruddock, Bunny Lee, Philip Smart, Pat Kelly and Prince Jammy."
tagline: "Jamaican musician; dub music originator"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.25
  momentum:             2.742634336307071
  historical:           8.626177333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1edl5fzpdS471TaQ8Bgs3w"
    handle:    "1edl5fzpdS471TaQ8Bgs3w"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/148869"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist_(musician)"
    title: "Scientist (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist"
    title: "Scientist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist_(musicien)"
    title: "Scientist (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist"
    title: "Scientist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist"
    title: "Scientist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist"
    title: "Scientist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist"
    title: "Scientist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Хоуптон Овертон Браун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/90d63976-5e70-4c73-a500-eb67997d6ed2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q898207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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