# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-airey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:15.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-airey"
name: "Don Airey"
slug: "don-airey"
description: "Donald Smith Airey is an English musician. He came to prominence as the keyboardist of the rock band Rainbow during 1979–1982. He has been the keyboardist of Deep Purple since 2002, after the retirement of Jon Lord. In addition to his tenures with Rainbow and Deep Purple, he has had a long and productive career playing with many other rock and metal acts, including Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Saxon, Wishbone Ash, Colosseum II, Ten, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Empire, Brian May, Divlje jagode and Living Loud. He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber."
tagline: "English keyboardist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Airey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.12565733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1135092/"
    handle:    "nm1135092"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.donairey.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون ايرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дон Эйры"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дон Еъри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Airey"
    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Դոն Էյրի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "დონ ეირი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Airey"
    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Airey"
    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Airey"
    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7bec6cd1-9602-400c-ab05-47e2d83bdf3d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1048434"
    title: "Don Airey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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