# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-penn
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:38:49.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-penn"
name: "Dan Penn"
slug: "dan-penn"
description: "Dan Penn is an American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer, who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s, including \"The Dark End of the Street\" and \"Do Right Woman, Do Right Man\" with Chips Moman and \"Cry Like a Baby\" with Spooner Oldham. Penn also produced many hits, including \"The Letter\", by The Box Tops. He has been described as a white soul and blue-eyed soul singer. Penn has released relatively few records featuring his own vocals and musicianship, preferring the relative anonymity of songwriting and producing.\nDan Penn produced an album on Ronnie Milsap in 1970 on Warner Bros."
tagline: "American musician"
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: "1941-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.060012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Z8f0RlC4uuFPi8KD5JbvB"
    handle:    "4Z8f0RlC4uuFPi8KD5JbvB"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/364280"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "دان بن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "دان بن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Penn"
    title: "Dan Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Penn"
    title: "Dan Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ダン・ペン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Penn"
    title: "Dan Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Penn"
    title: "Dan Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Penn"
    title: "Dan Penn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Пенн, Дэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cc54ec8d-ba66-4051-970d-6b3c24cd9e8b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214189"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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