# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharon-shannon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:56:55.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharon-shannon"
name: "Sharon Shannon"
slug: "sharon-shannon"
description: "Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 debut album, Sharon Shannon, was the best-selling album of traditional Irish music ever released in Ireland. Beginning with Irish folk music, her work demonstrates a wide-ranging number of musical influences. She won the lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Meteor Awards."
tagline: "Irish musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharon_Shannon_smiling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1968-11-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.925532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/Gaffalo"
    handle:    "Gaffalo"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/sharon.shannon1"
    handle:    "sharon.shannon1"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sharonshannon.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شارون شانون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شارون شانون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "شارون شانون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "シャロン・シャノン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Shannon"
    title: "Sharon Shannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/107bbb89-98a3-406d-bf03-ba7d09c6a6f0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457684"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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