# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:26:24.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-perkins"
name: "Al Perkins"
slug: "al-perkins"
description: "Al Perkins is an American guitarist known primarily for his steel guitar work. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins \"the world's most influential Dobro player\" and began producing an \"Al Perkins Signature\" Dobro in 2001—designed and autographed by Perkins."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manassas1972_(cropped).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: "1944-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.52
  momentum:             2.719033232628399
  historical:           6.85508
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.alperkinsmusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/265804"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "أل بيركنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ال بیرکنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Perkins"
    title: "Al Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Perkins"
    title: "Al Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Perkins"
    title: "Al Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Perkins"
    title: "Al Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f461d8a9-3537-4b4f-81f5-2be10f2b3c68"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2636185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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