# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/spike-heatley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:15:51.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/spike-heatley"
name: "Spike Heatley"
slug: "spike-heatley"
description: "Brian John Heatley, better known as Spike Heatley, was a British jazz double bassist."
tagline: "British musician (1933–2021)"
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: "1933-02-17"
deathDate: "2021-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.56
  momentum:             0.9411764705882354
  historical:           6.806696000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6805514/"
    handle:    "nm6805514"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/343022"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "سبايك هيتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Heatley"
    title: "Spike Heatley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Heatley"
    title: "Spike Heatley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Heatley"
    title: "Spike Heatley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Heatley"
    title: "Spike Heatley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Heatley"
    title: "Spike Heatley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fa659739-1d64-47c3-b789-5bee7a737ff7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1247311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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