# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-rapp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:24.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-rapp"
name: "Tom Rapp"
slug: "tom-rapp"
description: "Thomas Dale Rapp was an American singer and songwriter who led Pearls Before Swine, an influential psychedelic folk rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Described as having \"a slight lisp, gentle voice and apocalyptic vision\", he also released four albums under his own name. He later practiced as a lawyer after graduating from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1984."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Rapp_1998_concert.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1947-03-08"
deathDate: "2018-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.3
  momentum:             0.2240896358543417
  historical:           8.559613333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1339799/"
    handle:    "nm1339799"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/473842"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "توم راب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "توم راب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapp"
    title: "Tom Rapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%BF%CE%BC_P%CE%B1%CF%80"
    title: "Τομ Pαπ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapp"
    title: "Tom Rapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapp"
    title: "Tom Rapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapp"
    title: "Tom Rapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapp"
    title: "Tom Rapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b13da7b6-f07e-42a9-ac06-9d208a3e0bf0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6063576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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