# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shelton-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:04.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shelton-brooks"
name: "Shelton Brooks"
slug: "shelton-brooks"
description: "Shelton Brooks was a Canadian-born American composer and performer of popular music and jazz. He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style, and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century; including \"Some of These Days\" and \"At the Darktown Strutters' Ball\". He composed \"Some of These Days\" at the Pekin Theatre."
tagline: "Canadian-born African American composer of popular music and jazz"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/26XOfF1NMHRO635lkXdjYT9krXF.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1886-05-04"
deathDate: "1975-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.813824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112247/"
    handle:    "nm0112247"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "شيلتون بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شلتون بروکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Brooks"
    title: "Shelton Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Brooks"
    title: "Shelton Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "شلتون بروکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shelton Brooks"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Brooks"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Shelton Brooks"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump