# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanya-donelly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:59:10.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanya-donelly"
name: "Tanya Donelly"
slug: "tanya-donelly"
description: "Tanya Donelly is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist based in New England. She came to prominence as a co-founder of the band Throwing Muses with her step-sister Kristin Hersh. Donelly went on to co-form the alternative rock band The Breeders alongside Kim Deal in 1989, before leaving to front her own band Belly in 1991. By the late 1990s, she settled into a solo recording career, working largely with musicians connected to the Boston music scene."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tanya_Donelly_(2006).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1966-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.95049066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TanyaDonelly"
    handle:    "TanyaDonelly"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/donelly_donelly/"
    handle:    "donelly_donelly"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/tanyadonellymusic"
    handle:    "tanyadonellymusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401978/"
    handle:    "nm1401978"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tanyadonelly.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "تانيا دونيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تانیا دانلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تانیا دانلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "タニヤ・ドネリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F"
    title: "Донелли, Таня"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Donelly"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/478e2b34-bda3-48c8-81e4-77efac91f3ec"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2930577"
    title: "Tanya Donelly"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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