# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keith-godchaux
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:16:31.528Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keith-godchaux"
name: "Keith Godchaux"
slug: "keith-godchaux"
description: "Keith Richard Godchaux was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Following their departure from the Dead, he and his wife Donna formed the Heart of Gold Band in 1980, but Godchaux died from injuries sustained in a car accident shortly after their first concert."
tagline: "American musician and songwriter (1948–1980)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Keith_Godchaux.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1948-07-19"
deathDate: "1980-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.93
  momentum:             4.381782600960683
  historical:           8.624357333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323751/"
    handle:    "nm0323751"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيث جودشو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux"
    title: "Keith Godchaux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/af2af890-d7b6-4190-8117-8b4de37cb65b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351036"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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