# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-j-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:02:15.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/b-j-cole"
name: "B. J. Cole"
slug: "b-j-cole"
description: "Brian John Cole is an English pedal steel guitarist, who has long been active as a session and solo musician. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise, Cole has played in many styles, ranging from mainstream pop and rock to jazz and eclectic experimental music, but has never forgotten the instrument's roots in country music. Cole plays lap steel and dobro."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B.J._Cole.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.975777333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bjcole.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/61104"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Cole"
    title: "B. J. Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Cole"
    title: "B. J. Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Cole"
    title: "B. J. Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Cole"
    title: "B. J. Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.J._Cole"
    title: "B.J. Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a4c2ce14-cdf9-4ac1-a726-cda848dc94f7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1639645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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