# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-a-dorsey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:28.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-a-dorsey"
name: "Thomas A. Dorsey"
slug: "thomas-a-dorsey"
description: "Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including \"Take My Hand, Precious Lord\" and \"Peace in the Valley\". Recordings of these sold millions of copies in both gospel and secular markets in the 20th century."
tagline: "American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Thomas_A_Dorsey.jpg"
gender: "male"
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: "1899-07-01"
deathDate: "1993-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.43
  momentum:             5.133545658801546
  historical:           13.48734133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0234185/"
    handle:    "nm0234185"
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    title: "Thomas A. Dorsey"
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    title: "Thomas A. Dorsey"
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    title: "Thomas A. Dorsey"
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    title: "Thomas A. Dorsey"
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    title: "Thomas A. Dorsey"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump