# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uschi-bruning
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:55:13.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uschi-bruning"
name: "Uschi Brüning"
slug: "uschi-bruning"
description: "Uschi Brüning is a German jazz and soul singer and songwriter. She made her career in East Germany and was 42 when the Berlin wall was breached. She has transitioned and sustained her career more successfully than other former East German performance artists post-reunification, though her fan base remains concentrated principally in the east."
tagline: "German singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uschi-Bruening-14-09-2018_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.86
  momentum:             2.219589257503949
  historical:           6.189025333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8541158/"
    handle:    "nm8541158"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/255215"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uschi_Br%C3%BCning"
    title: "Uschi Brüning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uschi_Br%C3%BCning"
    title: "Uschi Brüning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uschi_Br%C3%BCning"
    title: "Uschi Brüning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uschi_Br%C3%BCning"
    title: "Uschi Brüning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uschi_Br%C3%BCning"
    title: "Uschi Brüning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/710bf78a-4e1f-499d-b4f7-c0a2e3c537f3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2502429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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