# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-prater
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:34:37.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-prater"
name: "Dave Prater"
slug: "dave-prater"
description: "David Prater Jr. was an American Southern soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, who was the deeper baritone/tenor vocalist of the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 until his death in 1988. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992), the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame (1997), and he was a Grammy Award–winning (1967) and multiple Gold Record award-winning recording artist."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_%26_Dave_(2).png?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: "1937-05-09"
deathDate: "1988-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.958502666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/260934"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%89_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "داڤى پراتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Prater"
    title: "Dave Prater"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Prater"
    title: "Dave Prater"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prater"
    title: "David Prater"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Prater"
    title: "Dave Prater"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Prater"
    title: "Dave Prater"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Prater"
    title: "Dave Prater"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/11573fb7-b856-4265-b787-e2bae148fe6e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018637"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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