# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:02.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-preston"
name: "Don Preston"
slug: "don-preston"
description: "Donald Ward Preston is an American jazz and rock keyboardist. He is best known for being a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention during the late 1960s. He continued to work with Zappa during the early 1970s following the band's split."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_preston_portrait.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: "1932-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.909090909090909
  historical:           14.75774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696406/"
    handle:    "nm0696406"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Preston"
    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Preston"
    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Престон, Дон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ca979604-be80-4234-9222-ebbbeaaf5a39"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Don Preston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump