# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/smiley-culture
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:22:45.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/smiley-culture"
name: "Smiley Culture"
slug: "smiley-culture"
description: "David Victor Emmanuel, better known as Smiley Culture, was a British reggae singer and DJ known for his \"fast chat\" style. During a relatively brief period of fame and success, he produced two of the most critically acclaimed reggae singles of the 1980s. He died on 15 March 2011, aged 48, during a police raid on his home. An inquest found that his death was a suicide. Campaigners and his family have expressed scepticism about the official verdict and the police version of events."
tagline: "English singer (1963–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/SmileyCultureLWTPubPic.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1963-02-10"
deathDate: "2011-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.2
  momentum:             1.35483870967742
  historical:           7.511018666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191722/"
    handle:    "nm0191722"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/211101"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "سميلى كولتور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Culture"
    title: "Smiley Culture"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Culture"
    title: "Smiley Culture"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%86%D8%B1"
    title: "اسمایلی کالچر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Culture"
    title: "Smiley Culture"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Culture"
    title: "Smiley Culture"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b1ab7d55-0797-449b-ab52-342d4e2c176a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3398633"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1692904"
    title: "Smiley Culture"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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