# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donnie-steele
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:16:17.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donnie-steele"
name: "Donnie Steele"
slug: "donnie-steele"
description: "Donnie Steele is an American musician, best known as one of two original guitarists of the heavy metal band Slipknot. Steele co-founded Slipknot in 1995, performing on the band's debut demo Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. He left in 1996 and was replaced by Craig \"133\" Jones, but later rejoined in 2011 as the touring bassist following the 2010 death of Paul Gray. Steele was part of the recording sessions for the band's 2014 album .5: The Gray Chapter, but left at some point before the album was finished and was replaced by Alessandro Venturella. According to Jim Root, some of Steele's bass tracks were used for the album though he did not specify which tracks feature Steele on bass."
tagline: "American guitarist"
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: "1967-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.70963066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1496588"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دوني ستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دونى ستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "دونی ستیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Steele"
    title: "Donnie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Steele"
    title: "Donnie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Steele"
    title: "Donnie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Steele"
    title: "Donnie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Steele"
    title: "Donnie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Стил, Донни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Steele"
    title: "Donnie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Донні Стілі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1133827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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