# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-barone
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:39:21.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-barone"
name: "Richard Barone"
slug: "richard-barone"
description: "Richard Barone is an American rock musician who first gained attention as frontman for the Bongos. He works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and record producer, releases albums as a solo artist, tours, and has created concert events at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, SXSW, and New York's Central Park. He teaches the course \"Music + Revolution\" at The New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, has served on the Board of Governors of The Recording Academy (GRAMMYs), serves on the Advisory Board of Anthology Film Archives, and hosts the \"Folk Radio\" show on WBAI New York."
tagline: "American rock musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barone_Carnegie.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1960-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.829592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RichardBarone"
    handle:    "RichardBarone"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2106296/"
    handle:    "nm2106296"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardbarone.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/252021"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%89)"
    title: "ريتشارد بارون (مغنى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barone"
    title: "Richard Barone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barone"
    title: "Richard Barone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barone"
    title: "Richard Barone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barone"
    title: "Richard Barone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/93b2d209-2813-44a5-9bf2-1fbdb9fe06b2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3430505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1107446"
    title: "Richard Barone"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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