# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-weatherspoon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:59:13.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-weatherspoon"
name: "William Weatherspoon"
slug: "william-weatherspoon"
description: "William Henry Weatherspoon was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his work for Motown Records in the 1960s. He co-wrote \"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted\", an international hit for Jimmy Ruffin, and many other hit songs."
tagline: "American songwriter (1936-2005)"
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: "1936-02-11"
deathDate: "2005-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             4.773893074066921
  historical:           4.423904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weatherspoon"
    title: "William Weatherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weatherspoon"
    title: "William Weatherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weatherspoon"
    title: "William Weatherspoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c1b52d9a-c284-4e6c-8ef3-c233f35e039b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/301529"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8020112"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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