# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/del-mccoury
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:05:26.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/del-mccoury"
name: "Del McCoury"
slug: "del-mccoury"
description: "Delano Floyd McCoury is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2003. In June 2010, he received a National Heritage Fellowship lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2011 he was elected into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HSB_2005_-_Del_McCoury.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: "1939-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.44
  momentum:             9.746646795827123
  historical:           7.588166666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/delmccouryband"
    handle:    "delmccouryband"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.delmccouryband.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/709379"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ديل مكورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_McCoury"
    title: "Del McCoury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_McCoury"
    title: "Del McCoury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_McCoury"
    title: "Del McCoury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デル・マクーリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_McCoury"
    title: "Del McCoury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_McCoury"
    title: "Del McCoury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e61892d0-4ad2-474a-a5fa-479dc28075ed"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5252933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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