# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-fontayne
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:38:58.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-fontayne"
name: "Shane Fontayne"
slug: "shane-fontayne"
description: "Michael Barakan, known as Shane Fontayne, is an English rock guitarist. Active since the 1970s, he was the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen during the 1992–1993 \"Other Band\" Tour, as Springsteen had disbanded his own E Street Band three years earlier. During his career Fontayne has worked with Ian Hunter, Van Zant, John Waite, Chris Botti, Joe Cocker, Johnny Hallyday, Marc Cohn, Randy VanWarmer, Graham Nash, Mick Ronson and others."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shane_Fontayne_playing_guitar_13Feb2016.png?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: "1954-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.98
  momentum:             3.974281408233854
  historical:           3.779357333333333
  currentAttention:     18.21914293045933
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shanefontayne.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "شان فونتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Fontayne"
    title: "Shane Fontayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/345bd2f6-29aa-4457-90fe-e736b5eb47d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/251997"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7488071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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