# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:07:28.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-perkins"
name: "Wayne Perkins"
slug: "wayne-perkins"
description: "David Wayne Perkins was an American rock and R&B guitarist, singer, songwriter, and session musician. A 2017 feature about him on the Alabama website AL.com described him as \"arguably the greatest guitarist Alabama ever produced\"."
tagline: "American musician"
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: "1951-09-06"
deathDate: "2026-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.21
  momentum:             0.3144963144963145
  historical:           7.742230666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/335440"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Perkins"
    title: "Wayne Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "واين بيركنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "اين بيركنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Perkins"
    title: "Wayne Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Perkins"
    title: "Wayne Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Perkins"
    title: "Wayne Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Perkins"
    title: "Wayne Perkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a3f53f56-d8f5-41f8-8bfa-ab8b0f571084"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7976524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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