# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wess
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:02.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wess"
name: "Wess"
slug: "wess"
description: "Wesley Johnson, known by his stage name Wess, was an American-born Italian singer and bass guitarist, perhaps mostly known for representing Italy along with Dori Ghezzi at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 in Stockholm, Sweden, placing third with the song \"Era\"."
tagline: "American-born Italian singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wess_Sanremo_1976.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: "1945-08-13"
deathDate: "2009-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.98
  momentum:             4.053254437869824
  historical:           11.25303333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/942933"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess_(S%C3%A4nger)"
    title: "Wess (Sänger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess"
    title: "Wess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess"
    title: "Wess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B3_(%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "وس (خواننده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess_(chanteur)"
    title: "Wess (chanteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess"
    title: "Wess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess_Johnson"
    title: "Wess Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess"
    title: "Wess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess"
    title: "Wess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wess"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/74833ef6-e4aa-4d40-9274-28f73531030b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q556477"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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