# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ragsdale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:16:08.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ragsdale"
name: "David Ragsdale"
slug: "david-ragsdale"
description: "David Lasater Ragsdale is an American musician. He is best known as the violinist and guitarist for the rock band Kansas from 1991 to 1997 and from 2006 to 2023. He toured for four years with Louise Mandrell before joining Kansas, and he released a solo album in 1997. Ragsdale has appeared as a guest artist with various other bands."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kansas%2C_David_Ragsdale.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: "1958-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             6.096774193548386
  historical:           9.25004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidragsdale.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_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "ديڤيد راجسدال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ragsdale"
    title: "David Ragsdale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7073be95-820a-4a76-86f5-db52cd1d9308"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3486804"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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