# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rico-love
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:22:54.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rico-love"
name: "Rico Love"
slug: "rico-love"
description: "Richard Preston Butler Jr., better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American songwriter and record producer. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but split his childhood between Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Harlem, New York City. He attended Florida A&M and, while visiting Atlanta, worked his way into the music industry through connections with singer Usher, who became one of Butler's frequent collaborators."
tagline: "American songwriter and record producer (born 1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rico_Love_by_Sandra_Alphonse.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: "1982-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.408753333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0522410/"
    handle:    "nm0522410"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1089311"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ريكو لوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ریکو لوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Love"
    title: "Rico Love"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Love"
    title: "Rico Love"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Love"
    title: "Rico Love"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Love"
    title: "Rico Love"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Love"
    title: "Rico Love"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7e00c640-fa26-4c83-bdac-ef7a1ecd863a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431664"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/104839"
    title: "Rico Love"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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