# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/screamin-jay-hawkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:07.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/screamin-jay-hawkins"
name: "Screamin' Jay Hawkins"
slug: "screamin-jay-hawkins"
description: "Jalacy J. \"Screamin' Jay\" Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, shouting vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as \"I Put a Spell on You\", he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the 1989 indie film Mystery Train."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer (1929-2000)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1929-07-18"
deathDate: "2000-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump