# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-covay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:06.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-covay"
name: "Don Covay"
slug: "don-covay"
description: "Donald James Randolph, better known by the stage name Don Covay, was an American R&B, rock and roll, and soul singer-songwriter most active from the 1950s to the 1970s."
tagline: "American musician (1938–2015)"
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: "1938-03-24"
deathDate: "2015-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.580565333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1021323/"
    handle:    "nm1021323"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/218044"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "دون كوڤاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Covay"
    title: "Don Covay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Covay"
    title: "Don Covay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Covay"
    title: "Don Covay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ドン・コヴェイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Covay"
    title: "Don Covay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Дон Ковэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8b98f267-a203-4e69-a6cb-996d4cfecaf7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237918"
    title: "Don Covay"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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