# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benny-mardones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:50.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benny-mardones"
name: "Benny Mardones"
slug: "benny-mardones"
description: "Ruben Armand \"Benny\" Mardones was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter who was best known for his hit single \"Into the Night\", which hit the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 (#11) and again in 1989 (#20)."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benny_Mardones_2010_(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: "1946-11-09"
deathDate: "2020-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.471708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BennyMardones"
    handle:    "BennyMardones"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2283947/"
    handle:    "nm2283947"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "بينى ماردونيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mardones"
    title: "Benny Mardones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/86d8cf6a-336c-4c8f-9375-2f93969504ae"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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