# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-manuel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:44:11.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-manuel"
name: "Richard Manuel"
slug: "richard-manuel"
description: "Richard George Manuel was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994."
tagline: "Canadian musician and composer (1943–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Band_2005710001.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1943-04-03"
deathDate: "1986-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.031476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  241
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544274/"
    handle:    "nm0544274"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Manuel"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リチャード・マニュエル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "რიჩარდ მანუელი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel"
    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel"
    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel"
    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel"
    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76135"
    title: "Richard Manuel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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