# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonny-bono
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:21.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonny-bono"
name: "Sonny Bono"
slug: "sonny-bono"
description: "Salvatore Phillip \"Sonny\" Bono was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and politician. In partnership with his second wife, Cher, he formed the singing duo Sonny & Cher. A member of the Republican Party, Bono served as the 16th mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992, and served as the U.S. representative for California's 44th district from 1995 until his death in 1998."
tagline: "American entertainer, musician and politician (1935–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonny_Bono_in_1966.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-02-16"
deathDate: "1998-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.654976572483317
  historical:           26.96597733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095122/"
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    title: "Սոնի Բոնո"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump