# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dwight-twilley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:14:14.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dwight-twilley"
name: "Dwight Twilley"
slug: "dwight-twilley"
description: "Dwight Twilley was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for the top 20 hit singles \"I'm on Fire\" (1975) and \"Girls\" (1984). His music is associated with the power pop style. Twilley and Phil Seymour performed as the Dwight Twilley Band through 1978, and Twilley performed as a solo act afterwards."
tagline: "American singer (1951–2023)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rjsWI12LMF8vqqhxFzQKWgS5Gnh.jpg"
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: "1951-06-06"
deathDate: "2023-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             1.296992481203008
  historical:           8.041513333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DwightTwilley"
    handle:    "DwightTwilley"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/DwightTwilleyFanWorld"
    handle:    "DwightTwilleyFanWorld"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1070504/"
    handle:    "nm1070504"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5G6M0zMrYh1mOMVzp7E0OW"
    handle:    "5G6M0zMrYh1mOMVzp7E0OW"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dwighttwilley.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/297949"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "دويجت تويلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Twilley"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/07aaebd9-0c37-4a65-80c8-48ae7cc99337"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5318252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4550644"
    title: "Dwight Twilley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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