# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-dale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:43.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-dale"
name: "Dick Dale"
slug: "dick-dale"
description: "Richard Anthony Monsour, known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as \"The King of the Surf Guitar,\" which was also the title of his second studio album."
tagline: "American surf rock guitarist (1937–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Dale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-05-04"
deathDate: "2019-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.677966101694914
  historical:           23.75548533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0197673"
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    url:       "http://www.dickdale.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump