# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-steinberg
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:32.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-steinberg"
name: "Billy Steinberg"
slug: "billy-steinberg"
description: "William Endfield Steinberg was an American songwriter. He achieved his greatest success in the 1980s with songwriting partner Tom Kelly, together they wrote or co-wrote the No. 1 hits \"Like a Virgin\" by Madonna (1984), \"True Colors\" by Cyndi Lauper (1986), \"Alone\", \"So Emotional\" by Whitney Houston (1987) and \"Eternal Flame\". Steinberg and Kelly also wrote or co-wrote the hit songs \"I Drove All Night\", \"I Touch Myself\" by Divinyls (1990) and \"I'll Stand by You\" by The Pretenders (1994)."
tagline: "American songwriter"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Billy_Steinberg_official.jpg"
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: "1950-02-26"
deathDate: "2026-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.78
  momentum:             0.384204909284952
  historical:           11.08669333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1392723/"
    handle:    "nm1392723"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيلي ستاينبرغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%92"
    title: "בילי סטיינברג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a98cd83c-4f9d-4c16-a3f2-3759df41df82"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4913336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1673946"
    title: "Billy Steinberg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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