# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shabba-ranks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:32.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shabba-ranks"
name: "Shabba Ranks"
slug: "shabba-ranks"
description: "Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon , better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, is a Jamaican dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most popular Jamaican musicians in the world. Although his early success ensured he was prominent in his home country as a dancehall artist, he gained popularity in North America with his album Just Reality in 1990. He released other albums, including As Raw as Ever and X-tra Naked, which both won a Grammy Award as Best Reggae Album in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He is notoriously popular for \"Mr. Loverman\" and \"Ting-A-Ling\", which were globally acclaimed and deemed his signature songs."
tagline: "Jamaican dancehall musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shabba_Ranks_at_Reggae_Land_Festival_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.278748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1133072/"
    handle:    "nm1133072"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3j7Sw80qzL2FJlryUhI3wG"
    handle:    "3j7Sw80qzL2FJlryUhI3wG"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mr-vegas.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شابا رانكس"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
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    title: "Shabba Ranks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ชับบา แรงส์"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump