# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-barnes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:30:56.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-barnes"
name: "Don Barnes"
slug: "don-barnes"
description: "Richard Donald Barnes is an American rock vocalist and guitarist and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band 38 Special. Barnes performed lead vocals on nearly all of the group's biggest hits, including \"Rockin' into the Night\", \"Hold On Loosely\", \"Caught Up in You\", \"If I'd Been the One\", \"Back Where You Belong\", \"Like No Other Night\", \"Somebody Like You\", \"Teacher Teacher\", \"Back to Paradise\", \"You Keep Runnin' Away\" and \"Fantasy Girl\"."
tagline: "American rock vocalist and guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DonBarnes.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: "1952-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.55
  momentum:             4.061573527908975
  historical:           10.25692666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دون بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دن بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Barnes"
    title: "Don Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Barnes"
    title: "Don Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Barnes"
    title: "Don Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "دن بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Barnes"
    title: "Don Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Barnes"
    title: "Don Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Barnes"
    title: "Don Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/67d58ec6-b471-4a1f-bf6c-ac0dd464bc08"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1238906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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