# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teri-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:19.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teri-thornton"
name: "Teri Thornton"
slug: "teri-thornton"
description: "Teri Thornton was an American jazz singer, music composer and pianist. She was known for recording several albums in the 1960's with a career spanning over four decades and composing several songs. She was also known for her work with musicians such as Duke Ellington, Clark Terry, Johnny Griffin, and Cannonball Adderly. Adderly called her \"the best voice since Ella Fitzgerald\". Ella Fitzgerald herself even told Downbeat Magazine that Thornton \"was her favorite singer\"."
tagline: "American jazz singer (1934–2000)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-09-01"
deathDate: "2000-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.740713333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1045966"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تيري ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تيرى ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Thornton"
    title: "Teri Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Thornton"
    title: "Teri Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Thornton"
    title: "Teri Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "テリー・ソーントン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Thornton"
    title: "Teri Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Тері Торнтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d9316f75-b4a1-4b0c-940b-c012ddc53f89"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1155037"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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