# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-stainton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:11.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-stainton"
name: "Chris Stainton"
slug: "chris-stainton"
description: "Christopher Robert Stainton is an English session musician, keyboard player, bassist and songwriter, who first gained recognition with Joe Cocker in the late 1960s. In addition to his collaboration with Cocker, Stainton is best known for his work with Eric Clapton, The Who, Andy Fairweather Low, Roger Waters and Bryan Ferry."
tagline: "English session musician, keyboard player, bassist and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Stainton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1944-03-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.4
  momentum:             5.627398878063183
  historical:           8.723881333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/257416"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كريس ستاينتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton"
    title: "Chris Stainton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton"
    title: "Chris Stainton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton"
    title: "Chris Stainton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton"
    title: "Chris Stainton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton"
    title: "Chris Stainton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton"
    title: "Chris Stainton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Стейнтон, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1e66dc54-c636-470e-b21b-f997d0b3e20f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q635406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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