# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-weissberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:54.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-weissberg"
name: "Eric Weissberg"
slug: "eric-weissberg"
description: "Eric Weissberg was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in \"Dueling Banjos\", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973."
tagline: "American musician (1939–2020)"
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: "1939-08-16"
deathDate: "2020-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             2.357301704966642
  historical:           9.060012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918716/"
    handle:    "nm0918716"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ericweissberg.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/304044"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "اريك ويسبرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weissberg"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d757ffe9-0c22-4a28-9c62-3975b4f44b02"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3056431"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1248430"
    title: "Eric Weissberg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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