# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:18:32.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-cooper"
name: "Ray Cooper"
slug: "ray-cooper"
description: "Raymond Cooper is an English musician who has worked as a session and road-tour percussionist. During his career, Cooper has worked and toured with numerous musically diverse bands and artists including Elton John, Harry Nilsson, Billy Joel, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Art Garfunkel. Cooper absorbed the influence of rock drummers from the 1960s and 1970s such as Ginger Baker, Carmine Appice and John Bonham."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Cooper_2010_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.41
  momentum:             17.84220883040216
  historical:           15.90924533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178318/"
    handle:    "nm0178318"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.raycooper.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "راي كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "راى كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "رای کوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%B1"
    title: "ری کوپر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "ריי קופר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_%EC%BF%A0%ED%8D%BC"
    title: "레이 쿠퍼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Cooper"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Купер, Рэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9e8fbf65-e9f9-43c4-a72c-655c379ab42b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385135"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5621171"
    title: "Ray Cooper"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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