# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richie-zito
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:52:12.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richie-zito"
name: "Richie Zito"
slug: "richie-zito"
description: "Richie Zito is an American songwriter, composer and record producer from Los Angeles. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Zito has experienced success as a prolific session musician, being featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings, including work with Joe Cocker, White Lion, Poison, Mr. Big, Neil Sedaka, Yvonne Elliman, Charlie Sexton, Eric Carmen, Art Garfunkel, Leo Sayer, Diana Ross, Marc Tanner, Elton John, Cher, The Motels, as well as The Cult, Eddie Money, Heart, Juliet Simms, Bad English and Prism."
tagline: "American guitarist"
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: "1952-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.96
  momentum:             0.3225806451612903
  historical:           6.64374
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/richiezito"
    handle:    "richiezito"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Richie-Zito-111158259042742"
    handle:    "Richie-Zito-111158259042742"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richiezito.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/125349"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ريكى زيتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Zito"
    title: "Richie Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Zito"
    title: "Richie Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Zito"
    title: "Richie Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Zito"
    title: "Richie Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Zito"
    title: "Richie Zito"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a5ba43f-94e5-466d-bd54-04d0f4ec4dfe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7330595"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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