# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-darling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:09:55.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-darling"
name: "David Darling"
slug: "david-darling"
description: "David Darling was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra and released many solo albums. Among these were 15 recordings for ECM."
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: "1941-03-03"
deathDate: "2021-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5325443786982248
  historical:           14.49165066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 3900
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201350/"
    handle:    "nm0201350"
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    handle:    "5qQyBIUGDM3QvXlTIo7puq"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVnb14ilUmzrFfbD1jZMI4Q"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Darling (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Darling (musician)"
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    title: "دیوید دارلینگ (موسیقی‌دان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Darling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Darling"
    title: "David Darling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Darling"
    title: "David Darling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дарлинг, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174479"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "David Darling"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump