# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zenobia-powell-perry
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:45.231Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zenobia-powell-perry"
name: "Zenobia Powell Perry"
slug: "zenobia-powell-perry"
description: "Zenobia Powell Perry was an American composer, professor and civil rights activist. She taught in a number of historically black colleges and universities and composed in a style that her biographer Jeannie Gayle Pool called \"music with clear, classic melodies.\" Her work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Detroit Symphony and West Virginia University Band and Orchestra."
tagline: "American composer and composition teacher"
gender: "female"
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: "1908-10-03"
deathDate: "2004-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.78
  momentum:             0.4225352112676056
  historical:           5.271994666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_Powell_Perry"
    title: "Zenobia Powell Perry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "زينوبيا پويل پيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_Powell_Perry"
    title: "Zenobia Powell Perry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0f6658fc-9486-461f-bc41-d509f31a4404"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_Powell_Perry"
    title: "Zenobia Powell Perry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_Powell_Perry"
    title: "Zenobia Powell Perry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2911264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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