# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stranger-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:31:05.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stranger-cole"
name: "Stranger Cole"
slug: "stranger-cole"
description: "Wilburn Theodore Cole, known professionally as Stranger Cole, was a Jamaican singer whose long recording career dates from the early days of ska in 1962 through to his death in 2026."
tagline: "Jamaican musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2013-08-23_Chiemsee_Reggae_Summer_-_Stranger_Cole_%26_The_Steadytones_3820.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945"
deathDate: "2026-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.01
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.147354666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/77076"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "سترانجير كول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Cole"
    title: "Stranger Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Cole"
    title: "Stranger Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Cole"
    title: "Stranger Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Cole"
    title: "Stranger Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Cole"
    title: "Stranger Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Cole"
    title: "Stranger Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/889fc007-3be8-4dc6-807a-490bdfe1a848"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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