# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-gates
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:15.213Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-gates"
name: "David Gates"
slug: "david-gates"
description: "David Ashworth Gates is a retired American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, who is best known for being the frontman and co-lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Gates_2000.jpg?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: "1940-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.74
  momentum:             1.380591542410169
  historical:           19.238044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309552/"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5BmXbfqAgfkuTkPlVQDKOW"
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    title: "David Gates"
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    title: "David Gates"
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    title: "David Gates"
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    title: "David Gates"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "데이비드 게이츠"
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    title: "David Gates"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump