# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/slim-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:17:42.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/slim-smith"
name: "Slim Smith"
slug: "slim-smith"
description: "Slim Smith was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer. In their book Reggae: The Rough Guide (1997), Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton described Smith as \"the greatest vocalist to emerge in the rocksteady era\"."
tagline: "Jamaican singer (1948–1973)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Slimsmith.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948"
deathDate: "1973-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.86
  momentum:             3.956043956043957
  historical:           6.615984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/106651"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Smith"
    title: "Slim Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Smith"
    title: "Slim Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Smith"
    title: "Slim Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Smith"
    title: "Slim Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "スリム・スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Smith"
    title: "Slim Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ca288bc0-5f3b-4ee6-8a36-c6e8478dd135"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3449320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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