Cutty Ranks

Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician

Person Human Q1146597

Facts

12 properties

Instance of: human
Sex or gender: male^[5]
Date of birth: February 12, 1965
Place of birth: Clarendon Parish
Country of citizenship: Jamaica^[4]
Occupation: singer
Genre: dancehall, dub music^[6]^[7]
Official website: www.artistsonly.com^[11]
Family name: Ranks^[10]
Record label: Profile Records, Fashion Records^[8]^[9]
Social media followers: 48k (11k–48k, n=9)^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]
Start of work period: 1980^[12]

🏷️ Also known as

en Philip Antonio Thomas en Philip Thomas en Cutty Ranks ar كاتي رانكس de Philip Thomas fr Philip Thomas ja カッティ・ランクス nl Philip Antonio Thomas zh 柯蒂·蘭克斯

🔖 Identifiers · 37

ISNI: 0000000081465678
VIAF cluster ID: 66659534
Library of Congress Authorities ID: no2003097364
GND ID: 134876172
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Cutty Ranks 2025 no sunglasses.jpg ↗
AZLyrics artist ID: c/cuttyranks
AllMusic artist ID: mn0000147771
BBC Things ID: bcef8ade-bc3a-490e-a727-dd4ba7cdfc1e
Bandsintown artist ID: 6315
Beatport artist ID: 19289
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 13980334x
Deezer artist ID: 61235

Show all 37 identifiers +25

Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID: 134876172
Discogs artist ID: 22506
Europeana entity: agent/base/85619
Freebase ID: /m/01w57_t
Genius artist ID: Cutty-ranks
Genius artist numeric ID: 137648
HAND ID: 8D8A-AA23-1C80-3ED9-5DE8
IMDb ID: nm0859367
KANTO ID: 000209160
Kinobox person ID: 1092913
Last.fm ID: Cutty+Ranks
Montreux Jazz Festival person ID: 9119
MusicBrainz artist ID: 0372006b-dcf8-4fb9-8694-d5ea3d2540f0
Muziekweb performer ID: M00000009007
Oxford Reference overview ID: 20110803100404111
Pitchfork artist ID: 24315-cutty-ranks
Rate Your Music artist ID: cutty_ranks
Setlist.fm artist ID: 63d6767b
Songkick artist ID: 203293
Spotify artist ID: 4qDGDPGMIJuIvPfUGe0Ngg
TMDB person ID: 137242
Tidal artist ID: 16857
WhoSampled artist ID: Cutty-Ranks
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJxGR7Q7GP6vB3HyJXXKh3
YouTube channel ID: UC-oQw3DvYQkOns9UQ9qEJQQ

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

🔗 Connections

Genre 2

dancehall, dub music

Mb:writer 2

Energy, Energy

Country of citizenship 1

Jamaica

Instance of 1

human

Mb:performer of 1

Six Million Ways to Die

Occupation 1

singer

Place of birth 1

Clarendon Parish

Sex or gender 1

male

Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Cutty Ranks was born on February 12, 1965^[1], in Clarendon Parish^[2]. He has worked as a singer^[3].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

Type: Person^[22]
Country: JM^[23]
Began / founded: 1965-02-12^[24]
Genre(s): dancehall, reggae^[25]
Community tags: dancehall, reggae^[26]
MusicBrainz ID: 0372006b-dcf8-4fb9-8694-d5ea3d2540f0^[27]

FAQs

Where was Cutty Ranks born?

Cutty Ranks's place of birth was Clarendon Parish^[2].

What did Cutty Ranks do for work?

Cutty Ranks worked as a singer^[3].

⭐ Popularity Graph

21/100 established

🌐 Wiki Languages

7 / 428 langs

📈 Wikipedia Views · last 12 months

5.0K views trend: hourly, last 192h

🔗 Readers Also Explored · clickstream, Mar–Apr 2026

🌐 Available in 6 languages

enCutty Ranks arكاتي رانكس deCutty Ranks esCutty Ranks nlCutty Ranks ptCutty Ranks

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Cutty Ranks — place of birth (P19): Clarendon Parish. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Cutty Ranks — sex or gender (P21): male. Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 2018-11-04. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Cutty Ranks — country of citizenship (P27): Jamaica. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Cutty Ranks — occupation (P106): singer. Retrieved 2019-06-20. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Cutty Ranks — genre (P136): dancehall. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Cutty Ranks — genre (P136): dub music. Montreux Jazz Festival Database. Retrieved 2020-09-28. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Cutty Ranks — record label (P264): Profile Records. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Cutty Ranks — record label (P264): Fashion Records. wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ Cutty Ranks — date of birth (P569): February 12, 1965. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Cutty Ranks — family name (P734): Ranks. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Cutty Ranks — official website (P856): http://www.artistsonly.com/cutty.htm. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Cutty Ranks — start of work period (P2031): 1980. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 11,100. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 13,600. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 21,200. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 24,400. YouTube API. Retrieved 2023-05-31. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 30,600. YouTube API. Retrieved 2024-01-15. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 33,700. YouTube API. Retrieved 2024-05-11. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 37,100. YouTube API. Retrieved 2024-09-14. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 42,400. YouTube API. Retrieved 2025-03-22. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Cutty Ranks — social media followers (P8687): 47,500. YouTube API. Retrieved 2025-09-06. wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

[22] ↑ Cutty Ranks — Type: Person. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[23] ↑ Cutty Ranks — Country: JM. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[24] ↑ Cutty Ranks — Began / founded: 1965-02-12. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[25] ↑ Cutty Ranks — Genre(s): dancehall, reggae. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[26] ↑ Cutty Ranks — Community tags: dancehall, reggae. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
[27] ↑ Cutty Ranks — MusicBrainz ID: 0372006b-dcf8-4fb9-8694-d5ea3d2540f0. MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Cutty Ranks. Retrieved November 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cutty-ranks

MLA “Cutty Ranks.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cutty-ranks.

BibTeX

@misc{4ortxyz_cutty-ranks_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Cutty Ranks}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cutty-ranks}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-10}}

LLM prompt

According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Cutty Ranks — https://4ort.xyz/entity/cutty-ranks (retrieved 2026-11-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/cutty-ranks · Last refreshed: November 10, 2026

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

10d ago · Nicereddy · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Tidal artist ID → 16857

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #63220: Import Tidal artist ID from MusicBrainz, also matching on name. Part1.: import Tidal artist ID (P4576) f"
5w ago · Printstream · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗

"Changed [de] labels, descriptions or aliases: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #57984: Import missing aliases from dewiki 1/3"
13w ago · Yirba · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Sex or gender → male

Official website → http://www.artistsonly.com/cutty.htm

Start of work period → 1980

Family name → Ranks

+ 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46467: HAND ID (7)"

Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.