# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilf-carter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:25:57.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilf-carter"
name: "Wilf Carter"
slug: "wilf-carter"
description: "Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter, professionally known as Wilf Carter in his native Canada and also as Montana Slim in the United States, was a Canadian Country and Western singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller, who was said to have pioneered the transitional bridge between authentic cowboy folk music and the carefully composed romantic Hollywood singing cowboy genre."
tagline: "Canadian singer (1904-1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Wilf_Carter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1904-12-18"
deathDate: "1996-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             0.7389162561576353
  historical:           10.09708666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4623507/"
    handle:    "nm4623507"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/801113"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلف كارتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلف كارتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf_Carter_(Musiker)"
    title: "Wilf Carter (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf_Carter_(musician)"
    title: "Wilf Carter (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf_Carter"
    title: "Wilf Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf_Carter"
    title: "Wilf Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf_Carter"
    title: "Wilf Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%84"
    title: "Картер, Уилф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilf_Carter_(musician)"
    title: "Wilf Carter (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d9bc9bc4-f3f1-4aea-9520-07408bbb4767"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124670"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4913800"
    title: "Wilf Carter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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