# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-chapin-carpenter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:02:10.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-chapin-carpenter"
name: "Mary Chapin Carpenter"
slug: "mary-chapin-carpenter"
description: "Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Although her first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles, she broke through with 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter (b. 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Chapin_Carpenter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1958-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.38024266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "M_CCarpenter"
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    handle:    "marychapincarpenter"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.marychapincarpenter.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump