# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-dean-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:09:10.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-dean-taylor"
name: "R. Dean Taylor"
slug: "r-dean-taylor"
description: "Richard Dean Taylor was a Canadian musician, most notable as a singer, songwriter, and record producer for Motown during the 1960s and 1970s. According to Jason Ankeny, Taylor was \"one of the most underrated acts ever to record under the Motown aegis.\""
tagline: "Canadian singer, musician, songwriter and record producer (1939–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/R_Dean_Taylor.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-05-11"
deathDate: "2022-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.883448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3868158/"
    handle:    "nm3868158"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Yg38CnYMoN09sMLf6KDdW"
    handle:    "4Yg38CnYMoN09sMLf6KDdW"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rdeantaylor.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريتشارد دين تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آر. دين تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ار. دین تایلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Dean_Taylor"
    title: "R. Dean Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Dean_Taylor"
    title: "R. Dean Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Dean_Taylor"
    title: "R. Dean Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Dean_Taylor"
    title: "R. Dean Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Dean_Taylor"
    title: "R. Dean Taylor"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a67b2281-f999-4a4e-93ce-3fdafbcc0d39"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2123849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4979300"
    title: "R Dean Taylor"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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