# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vince-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:43.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vince-hill"
name: "Vince Hill"
slug: "vince-hill"
description: "Vincent Brian Hill was an English traditional pop singer, best known for his cover version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune \"Edelweiss\" (1967), which reached No. 2 on the UK singles chart. He recorded 25 studio albums and several soundtracks, wrote songs and plays and hosted TV shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including They Sold a Million (BBC), Musical Time Machine (BBC) and the chat show Gas Street (ITV). Outside his work in show business, he was a patron of the Macular Society, a UK charity for people affected by central vision loss."
tagline: "British singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/British_Singer_Vince_Hill_aged_83.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-04-16"
deathDate: "2023-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.52
  momentum:             11.1
  historical:           6.652632000000001
  currentAttention:     8.840000000000002
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/SingerVinceHill"
    handle:    "SingerVinceHill"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1082965/"
    handle:    "nm1082965"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/525104"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "فينس هيل (مغني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فينس هيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Hill"
    title: "Vince Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Hill"
    title: "Vince Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Hill"
    title: "Vince Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9e4c2b4c-8454-417e-a4e0-f7f2ef976cc6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2526415"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1765998"
    title: "Vince Hill"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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