# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-danko
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:09:41.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-danko"
name: "Rick Danko"
slug: "rick-danko"
description: "Richard Clare Danko was a Canadian musician, bassist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a founding member of the Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994."
tagline: "Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician (1943–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Danko_1979.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: "1943-12-29"
deathDate: "1999-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.27086085984348
  historical:           20.66092933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200313/"
    handle:    "nm0200313"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
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    title: "რიკ დანკო"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рік Данко"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Rick Danko"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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