# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-lindley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:17.989Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-lindley"
name: "David Lindley"
slug: "david-lindley"
description: "David Perry Lindley was an American musician who founded the rock band El Rayo-X and worked with many other performers including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Warren Zevon, Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton. He mastered such a wide variety of instruments that Acoustic Guitar magazine referred to him not as a multi-instrumentalist but instead as a \"maxi-instrumentalist.\""
tagline: "American musician (1944–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_lindley_31101981_01_300.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: "1944-03-21"
deathDate: "2023-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.34937466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/inductdavidlindley"
    handle:    "inductdavidlindley"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511972/"
    handle:    "nm0511972"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1l3MU8zV0Rf8qyB7dae38J"
    handle:    "1l3MU8zV0Rf8qyB7dae38J"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidlindley.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ديڤيد ليندلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "دیوید لیندلی (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley_(musiker)"
    title: "David Lindley (musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley_(musician)"
    title: "David Lindley (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C_(%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "دیوید لیندلی (نوازنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "デヴィッド・リンドレー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindley"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b3dcdff7-ddde-46bd-9527-684b8e8c0fc6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1175266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1675216"
    title: "David Lindley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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