# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/as-m-can-gunduz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:41:26.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/as-m-can-gunduz"
name: "Asım Can Gündüz"
slug: "as-m-can-gunduz"
description: "Asım Can Gündüz was a Turkish rock and blues guitarist. He was also known as Awesome John, especially outside Turkey, partly because his name is pronounced very much like Awesome (Asım) John (Can)."
tagline: "Turkish guitarist (1955–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/As%C4%B1m_Can_G%C3%BCnd%C3%BCz_-_Bilkent_-_21.4.16.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-08-15"
deathDate: "2016-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             0.5410447761194029
  historical:           6.194353333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/asimcang"
    handle:    "asimcang"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/asim.gunduz.9"
    handle:    "asim.gunduz.9"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4884087"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "اسيم كان جوندوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%C4%B1m_Can_G%C3%BCnd%C3%BCz"
    title: "Asım Can Gündüz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%C4%B1m_Can_G%C3%BCnd%C3%BCz"
    title: "Asım Can Gündüz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%C4%B1m_Can_G%C3%BCnd%C3%BCz"
    title: "Asım Can Gündüz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%C4%B1m_Can_G%C3%BCnd%C3%BCz"
    title: "Asım Can Gündüz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7267c06f-1841-437b-9717-a2ebf0d22f81"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3627708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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