# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seosamh-o-heanai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:57:32.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seosamh-o-heanai"
name: "Seosamh Ó hÉanaí"
slug: "seosamh-o-heanai"
description: "Joe Heaney was an Irish traditional singer from Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. He spent most of his adult life abroad, living in England, Scotland and New York City, in the course of which he recorded hundreds of songs."
tagline: "Sean-nós singer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-10-15"
deathDate: "1984-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.6
  momentum:             5.729245046400803
  historical:           6.816668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1DX5OmABaJp87grJ1klUvm"
    handle:    "1DX5OmABaJp87grJ1klUvm"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/215417"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "سيوسامه او هياناى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Heaney"
    title: "Joe Heaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Heaney"
    title: "Joe Heaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Heaney"
    title: "Joe Heaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Heaney"
    title: "Joe Heaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Heaney"
    title: "Joe Heaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d485c12f-8768-4c85-af6c-f1212c3bcbdf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2448688"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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